Decision Making to Marry Women Who Married Early in the Tunon Village, Tegal City

Abstract

The problem that occur in adolescents marry early, especially in the Tunon Village Tegal City. The number problems with early marriage in Tunon Village 58 people who marride early, and the reseachers used 3 respondents for the study. The purpose of this study is to : find out the basis for making decisions about early marriage, the supporting factors for making decisionabout early marriage, the impact of making decision on early marriage, and the style of making decisions about early marriage. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method, with data collection techniques by observation, documentatio, and interviews. The validity of the data uses data triangulation from 3 parents of respondents. The results of this study of the three respondents made basic decisions (intuition, rasionality, and choice of action), on decision making factors (educational factors, economic factors, pregnancy factors out of wedlock, and peer factors), the impact felt by respondents after making the decision to marry ( economic impact, health impact, and psychological impact), while the decision-making style of early marriage (intuitive style, rational style, and dependent style). To minimize the increasing problem of early marriage, awareness is needed from adolescents as well as positive encouragement from parents, counselors and the government.