Comparison of Knowledge about Early Marriage between Young Men and Women

Abstract

Early marriage in Indonesia reaches 50 million of the total population of 237.6 million people. Early marriage to both women and men in general, marriage is more common in women than in men before they are 19 years old. The purpose of this research is to know the differences of knowledge between young men and women about early marriage in Junior High School “PGRI 04 Bantur”, using a comparative analytic research design. The population was all students of grade 2 and 3 with 89 students in Junior High School “PGRI 04 Bantur”. The sample were 73 students with 39 male students and 34 female students. The sampling technique was using proportional stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed using Chi square test. The result of this research shows that young men had favorable with early marriage 13 (33.3 %) and unfavorable attitude 26 (66.7%). While young women had a favorable attitude with early marriage of 26 (76.5 %) and unfavorable of 8 (23.5%). The result of hypothesis test was got the p-value of 0.000 (<0.05), so there was difference of knowledge between young men and women about early marriage at Junior High School “PGRI 04 Bantur”. In relation to the results of research indicating high support for early marriage, it is recommended to schools to provide coaching and guidance to students about healthy marriage, provision of information or counseling through Reproductive Health Service and Care for adolescents so that they become more aware and understand about the impact of early marriage.
Keywords: Knowledges, Early marriage, Adolescent