Gambaran Penyebab Pernikahan Usia Dini Pada Remaja di Kecamatan Ciwaru Kabupaten Kuningan

Abstract

Introduction: Early age marriage is one of the issues in reproductive health that get noticed globally. Many early childhood marriage cases occurred in different parts of the world with different backgrounds. Poverty is not the only important factors that play a role in an early age marriage. There are still many factors that affect someone doing early age marriage and devided into two factors, internal and external factors. This research aims to identify and describe many factors that assumed to affect women doing early age marriage in Ciwaru, Kuningan District. Method: This research used descriptive design. The population is all of women couples in Ciwaru District who doing early age marriage in 2010 year, 87 couples. All population members become sample (populational study). Data were collected using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic (percentage and frequency distribution). Result: The results show that 80.5% women have basic educational level (SD-SMP), 72.4% have premarital sexual activity experience which due to premarital pregnancy also, 43.7% have a low grade knowledge about reproductive health and sexuality, and 55.2% come from family who have a low level economy background. This study concludes that 47.1% early age marriage case in Ciwaru District is affected by internal factors (education, knowledge, etc) and 52.9% is related with external factors (family economy’s background, relatedness pattern, peer pressure, etc). Discussion: the midwives in community have to promote extensively the regulation about marriage, child protection, gender equality, and reproductive health, especially to parents and teen girls.