Abstract
Early marriage is a marriage performed by women under the age of 16. Aluh-Aluh Subdistrict obtained 69 early marriages in 2017 at the highest number in Banjar Regency. Early marriage is one of the causes of perinatal death, abortion, obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, high-risk pregnancy, stress, anxiety, and household harmony. The purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between early marriage with abortion, risky pregnancy, anxiety, and domestic harmony on early marriages in Aluh-Aluh Sub-District, Banjar Regency. This study used an observational analytic design with a cross sectional research design. The study population was 211 married mothers in 2017. The sampling technique in this study was using a purposive sampling with a minimum sample size of 50 people. The results showed that there was no relationship between early marriage and the incidence of abortion (p-value = 1,000) and risky pregnancy (p-value = 0.229) from a physical impact. Furthermore, early marriage also has no relationship with anxiety (p-value = 0.133) as a psychological impact. Meanwhile, domestic harmony has a homogeneous result so statistical tests cannot be carried out. The conclusion of this research is that there is no relationship between early marriage with the incidence of abortion, risky pregnancy, and anxiety in women in Aluh-Aluh Sub-District, Banjar District.
Highlights
Marriage Law Number 1 of 1974 states that early marriage is a marriage that occurs before the age of 16 for women and before 19 years for men.[1]
Indonesia is one of the 10 countries with the highest absolute rate of early marriage, namely 1,408,000 women aged 20 to 24 years at the time studied had married before the age of 18.2 The results of the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) in 2017 stated that the percentage of women of childbearing age adolescents aged 15-24 years who are married is 72%
Banjar Regency is the district with the second highest number of early marriages in South Kalimantan after Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency with 103 people.[5]
Summary
Marriage Law Number 1 of 1974 states that early marriage is a marriage that occurs before the age of 16 for women and before 19 years for men.[1]. Banjar Regency is the district with the second highest number of early marriages in South Kalimantan after Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency with 103 people.[5] Based on the results of data from the Ministry of Religion of Banjar Regency (2018), 69 perpetrators of early marriage from January to December in 2017 in Aluh-Aluh District, which is the highest number in all sub-districts in Banjar Regency.[6] Early marriage is one of the causes of perinatal death. The purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between early marriage and the physical and psychological impact on the perpetrators of early marriage in Aluh-Aluh District, Banjar Regency, namely the impact of abortion, risky pregnancy, anxiety and household harmony. The bivariate analysis used was fisher exact because it did not meet the requirements of the chi-square test
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