"Ideal Family Size and Women's Values and Beliefs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Turkey".

The article focuses on a research conducted in order to explore the interrelationship between ideal family size (IFS) and women's values and beliefs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Turkey. In Turkey, a mature respondent and an educated husband is the only significant characteristic for small IFS. In Pakistan, education is the most important factor. It is to be noted that being married to a husband with higher education translates into higher odds for relatively small IFS and lower odds for large IFS. Education of both respondent and partner in Bangladesh, plays in the direction of less likely association with large family size.