The Problem of Early Marriage

People always have their own reason to do something including the decision to get married. Some of them may consider marriage is a need, some consider that marriage is a way to perfect their religion, some get married because of the demand of age and environment. On the other hand, in this modern era we also can see many people especially female in the teenage getting married. The majority with the early marriage comes from the family with the low education and poor welfare. They think early marriage is the good solution to release the burden in their family. They don’t consider the risk of the early marriage especially for the female related to the forwardness of reproduction vital organ and the psychology of the teenagers.

Early marriage is not good for the reproduction vital organ because it can increase the proximity of getting cervical cancer. In the age between 12-20 years old, reproduction vital organ is still evolving so that it should not have an outside thing, penetration of male sexual organ, inside them when the cervical cell is active. Wherefore, the outside penetration is one of cervical virus’ causes. Another fact is that teenagers also haven’t been ready yet to be pregnant. From the physical readiness commonly they don’t have enough hip bone to bear the baby. A pregnant teenager also psychologically has worse condition than pregnant adult. One of the common psychological interference is baby blue syndrome, a condition where mother’s emotion and mood change drastic after bearing the baby. Therefore, it can lead to mother’s depression. This situation usually happens around 2- 4 weeks. These facts show clearly that early marriage is the bad choice which can cause cervical cancer virus and it can bring to the depression in some cases. Now let’s turn to psychology of teenagers in the general.

Looking at the teenagers’ psychology, we think that teenagers have unstable emotion and somehow they still stay in the egoistic condition. In their age, teenagers are still on their journey to find who they are exactly, so that they are still selfish of thinking about themselves. We cannot deny teenagers still want to explore more about all things, they also still count on their parents for everything. It causes teenagers seem not having ability to solve the problem when they are facing troubles with their partners. These situations effect to the number of divorce. Based on BKKBN NTB, Nusa Tenggara Barat as the area with highest early marriage 2015 also has the high number of divorce case which 21.55 % of them coming from teenager.

The facts tell us obviously to oppose the arguments which aim is to strengthen and consider that teenage marriage is good idea. In fact, teenage marriage only gives the bad effect for psychology of teenagers like causing a divorce due to their labile condition. From physical side, we know that early married can cause some problems for health. This states that there is nothing to agree with the statement teenage marriage is great idea.

Written by Anna Pertiwi