Abstract
There are various factors which contribute to adolescent out-of-wedlock pregnancy such as family, peers, media, education and environment. Factors which stem from the family include problems associated with lack of love and affection, parents who are too busy with work, divorce and domestic crisis. Nevertheless, the family is identified as a small institution which has an important role in curbing this problem. In relation to this, the need for a detailed study to identify the factors contributing to adolescent out-of-wedlock pregnancy in terms of the family and the role which it can play to curb this problem is very important to overcome this social ill and prevent it from worsening into a chronic social issue. This study is designed as a survey study. 50 respondents have been selected as sample study in two adolescent shelter homes in Malaysia, namely, Raudhatus Sakinah and PERKID by using the method of convenience sampling. Data obtained are descriptively analysed using software SPSS 20.0. Study findings show that out-of-wedlock pregnancy among Muslim adolescents is caused by the failure of parents to control their daughters’ behaviour as well as by a communication problem between parents and their adolescents. Findings also show that the family institution can play a role in overcoming this social ill through parents being exemplary role-models, giving their children adequate religious education, monitoring their children’s movements, getting advisory and guidance services from family and religious counselors in educating their children and getting closer to them. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n29p101
Highlights
Various parties including family, school, society and state play their respective roles in overcoming the problem of out-ofwedlock pregnancy among adolescents
This research is conducted in order to identify the family factor as one of the causes contributing to out-of-wedlock pregnancy among adolescents
A number of respondents admitted that “ Domestic crisis has led me to leave home and socialize ‘., “Parents neglect to emphasize or inculcate religious education in my life”, “ Parents are not worried about my mixing with men”, “I am exposed to free sex by family members” and “Parents expelled me from home when I got pregnant”(mean=1.50)
Summary
School, society and state play their respective roles in overcoming the problem of out-ofwedlock pregnancy among adolescents. The school has launched a ‘hate zina (fornication)’ campaign to curb this social ill The relevant authorities such as anti-vice officers carry out their tasks in arresting adolescents who are in close proximity or commit fornication. It is the family which is found to be more effective in containing this social ill because education begins early at home. With this realization, this study is conducted with the purpose of examining the role of the family to overcome out-of-wedlock pregnancy among adolescents. Ghadur and Abdul Kadir (2009) found other contributory factors such as parental divorce, too many siblings and re-marriage of the mother to a low-income man
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