Problematika Pernikahan Usia Muda: Studi Kasus di Desa Mattirowalie, Kecamatan Libureng, Kabupaten Bone

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According to the rule of marriage number 1, 1974 chapter 7 section 1 which
set the limitation of te age for men and women who will get marriage, they
have been 19 years old for a man and 16 years old for woman. The objective
of the study was to know the frequency of early marriage happen. The kind of
the study was descriptive qualitative and the informant of determination was
conducted by purposive sampling, the data analyze of technique using
observation, interview and documentation. Then it was analyzed by reduction,
presentation and verification data. The result of the study showed early
marriage happened by some factors, they are: the first, volition himself or
herself (love each other), the second, the family factor (the parents look for
their son’s or girl’s couple) the third, the tradition factor (to make their family
or relative to be close in that society), the fourth, economy factor (to reduce
the parents’ outcome), the fifth, educational factor (their parents have lack
knowledge for their son or daughter).