Baby – O – Matic

Fatima’s Culture Version

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1. Family Life

a. Women plan to never marry

b. When women marry, both the wife

and husband will share important decisions.

c. When women marry, only the man in the couple will make important decisions

2. Education

a. Women don’t know how to read, and

women don’t expect to ever learn

b. Women know how to read, but do

not expect to graduate from high school.

c. Women will definitely finish high school, and may continue their formal education.

3. Social Security

a. When women grow old, or

unable to work, they expect the family

to provide.

b. Women hope to rely on personal savings, when they grow old, or unable to work.

c. When women grow old, or unable to work, the government will take care of them.

4. Status Symbols

a. The culture believes that the position women hold in the workplace, and the money women accumulate in life are the most important gauges of how successful women have been

b. A large family is much more important to women than a successful career

c. Women’s status in the workplace is important, but family is equally important

5. Time and money management

a. Raising children takes a lot of time and money, and women would rather be doing other things with those resources.

b. Raising children may be expensive,

but is something that women should

want to do with their lives.

c. Children will be very useful to women as workers, and will help support the family

6. Health

a. Women expect children to

have long full lives.

b. Women expect children wouldn’t

live very long.

7. Personal beliefs

a. Women have been taught that

responsibility in life is to have as many children as they can.

b. Women believe that no one should tell them how many children they should have. That decision is for husband and wife to make.

c. Women believe that the world just has too many people, and we’d all be better off if there were fewer.

8. Timing

a. Women expect to be a parent by the time they turn 20.

b. Women believe if they are not a parent by the time I turn 40, no problem.

c. Women would like to be a parent by the time they turn 35.