The rate of child marriage worldwide reaches 21%. Indonesia was the 37th country with second-highest percentage marriages in ASEAN. Adolescent knowledge and attitudes affect behavior marriages. Therefore, educational media is needed to increase form positive adolescents related maturation age marriage. This study determine effect video on about research used a quasi-experimental nonequivalent c...

This study analyzes the trends in timing of entry into first marriage among Taiwanese. Applying the life table method, the variations in marriage timing associated with educational attainment and ethnic background are also examined across birth cohorts. The data used in this study come from the Taiwan Social Change Survey project. A comparison between birth cohorts shows that early and universa...

The debate over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into civil marriages continues in the United States. Forty-nine adolescents and emerging adults (ages 14 – 29) with lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents were interviewed for the current exploratory study, which examined how individuals perceived themselves and their families as being affected by marriage (in)equality, as well as ...

OBJECTIVES For women, marriage before the age of 18 years has adverse consequences for physical, mental and emotional well-being and constitutes a barrier for continued education. According to a national survey, about 50% of all women in Eastern Turkey were aged under 18 years at first marriage. METHODS This study explored women's opinions and experiences of early marriage and culture-specifi...

Past research has consistently documented the positive relationship between a transition to marriage and psychological well-being. In this study, we separate the depressed from the nondepressed to assess whether the benefits marriage has for psychological well-being depend on premarital depression. We also examine whether the effect of marital quality in moderating the psychological consequence...

Over the past few years the issue of child marriage has received growing political and programmatic attention. In spite of some progress in a number of countries, global rates have not declined over the past decade. Knowledge gaps remain in understanding trends, drivers and approaches to ending child marriage, especially to understand what is needed to achieve results on a large scale. This com...

The paper integrates marriage matching with a collective model of spousal labor supplies with public goods and full spousal risk sharing. The paper derives testable implications of how changes in marriage market conditions affect spousal labor supplies. The model motivates a sufficient statistic for marriage market tightness that is specific to the marital match and highlights several empirical...

This article examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage market. A possible behavioral change in the marriage market in response to an increase in prime-age adult mortality is to marry earlier to avo...

Historically, marriage has always been at the center of a tension between religious and secular systems, which relationships tend towards influence and cooperation rather than exclusiion and separation. Religious law has given an input to the process of emphasizing the freedom of selfdetermination of indiividuals in marriage matters and promoted a woman’s recognition of an equal position. Marri...