Characteristics Of Child Marriage In Indonesian Families

Abstract

Child marriage is common in various parts of the world, around one in five girls are married as children. Indonesia is ranked 8th in the world and 2nd in ASEAN. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method using secondary data from PK 2021. Further analysis was conducted using the Chi-Square test to determine the relationship between the dependent variable (child marriage) and the independent variables (age, education, marital status, employment status, insurance ownership and birth certificate). The number of Indonesian families is 64,221,677 and families who marry at the age of ≤ 18 years are 29.1% (18,715,673 families). As many as 29% of women/men are married/living together at the age of ≤ 18 years and 24% are divorced/separated/divorced. As many as 7.5% of women/men who are married at the age of ≤ 18 are currently aged 20-24. In terms of education, families who have child marriages are 71.7% low educated. While the education of female partners who are highly educated is only 9%. The results of further tests on all variables found that there is a positive relationship between age, education, marital status, employment status, insurance ownership and birth certificates with the incidence of child marriage.