Summary

The views and attitudes of every human being towards the demographic processes is developed generally through the national, family traditions, religious affiliation, the certain living conditions, education level and the social environment, where people live.

The religious affiliation exerts an important influence on the demographic behaviors. The clear example of that is a proposal of His Holiness Catholicos – Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II to the Georgian population, made in 2007. As a result, the percentage share of third and the subsequent child was increased accordingly from 10,9% to 18,3% among the total number of those born during 2014-2015 years.

The reproductive behavior of Orthodox Christians is characterized with the important peculiarities because of their faith: family planning is not common practice in their families, according to their point of view, this matter is decided by the God’s will (85,2%).  Concerning the fact that the most respondents are not practicing interfamily birth control, no essential importance is given by them to the child’s gender as well (86,4%); The number of children considered as an ideal, as well as a desired among the orthodox believers doesn’t exceed 3 children and this figure is very close to each other. The average desired number of children is behind the ideal only by two tenths. They are really distinguished by this, because this trend is not revealed in other social groups. The total of expected number of children equals to 4,05. This figure exceeds the same figure for  2004 year (3,95) and the other social groups figures (2,5) as well. The church attendance frequency exerts a great influence on the number of children in the family. The total of expected number of children is the highest among the respondents, who attends church on a weekly basis (5,2) and this figure is dropping with the church attendance frequency decrease.