Childbearing is essentially a culture.The childbearing culture is the sum total of various cultural phenomena in the process of reproduction and multiplication activities of the human race.It belongs to the ideological cultural sphere relative to the political and economical.As apart of population culture, the childbearing culture itself can be divided into connotative childbearing culture and extensive childbearing culture.The former is the sum of cultural phenomena appeared from impregnation to the period of infant.It can be divided into six categories:ideological childbearing culture, scientific childbearing culture, normal childbearing culture, informational childbearing culture, behavioral childbearing culture and organizational childbearing culture.The latter, as an open system, is the kind of cultural phenomena, such as marriage culture, women culture, providing for the aged culture, bearing culture, family culture and commodity culture, which has influence on the ideology of childbearing.
