Decision Criteria (ranked in order of priority)

Decision Characteristics

1) Is this pregnancy unplanned?

2) Did you think about not having the child when you first learned of your pregnancy?

A. (2)

Planned or unplanned pregnancy

3) Did your husband have an affair, or have you had arguments or considered divorce?

16) Does your husband not support having another child?

29) Do you not think that “getting married and having kids” is natural?

B. (3)

Stability of feelings

for married partner

4) Are you unaffected by religious beliefs?

19) Are you relatively able to accept issues of life and death?

21) Do you think that a fetus is not a living thing?

22) Do you feel that having this child was not meant to be?

30) Do you feel that this child is innocent?

27) When you realized that the baby survived even after you had taken a morning-after pill, did you still think that the baby was not meant to be?

C. (6)

Views on fetal life

6) Is your mother-in-law/mother satisfied with the gender (s) of the child (ren) you’ve given birth to?

31) Is your husband satisfied with the gender (s) of the child (ren) you’ve given birth to?

D. (2)

Consideration of mother-in-law, mother or husband’s views regarding gender role effects on carrying on the ancestral line

5) Are you satisfied with the gender (s) of the child (ren)you’ve given birth to?

7) Are you satisfied with the number of children you’ve given birth to?

14) Do you not wish to know what your child would look like?

20) Do you not wish to give your existing child (ren) a sibling?

17) Are you unaffected by whether or not the fetus is a boy?

E. (5)

Significance of number of children, gender, and appearance

9) Do you have any economic burdens?

F. (1)

Economic Burden

8) Does your work occupy most of your time?

G. (1)

Work, career, and

time management

10) Are you unaffected by your own or other people’s experiences with induced abortion?

24) Is it too soon since your last pregnancy?

H. (2)

Impression of and influence by

previous pregnancies

11) Will rearing a child put a burden on your physical health, strength, and mentality?

18) Are you concerned about being old when your children are still young in the future?

26) Have you not given thought to your child’s parenting problems in the future?

25) Do you feel lonely from carrying a child, giving birth, and caring for the child alone?

I. (4)

Child parenting status

23) Are you worried that rearing a child would be too tiresome because of your husband’s poor health?

15) Will pregnancy and birth be a burden on your physical and mental health?

13) Are you concerned that taking medicine/undergoing x-ray examinations during pregnancy will influence fetal development?

J. (3)

Physical health status of parents and fetus

12) Do you not have enough living space at home?

K. (1)

Re-allocation of living environment

28) Are you concerned about being mocked at for “having a baby at such an old age”?

L. (1)

Sociocultural opinions