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Background: Early marriage remains prevalent among adolescents aged 15–19 years, a period during which individuals are often medically and psychologically unprepared to assume marital responsibilities. Decisions to marry early are influenced by internal factors such as psychological readiness, emotional maturity, and critical thinking ability, as well as external factors including family pressure, cultural norms, and economic challenges. Objective: This study aims to explore the factors influencing adolescents' decisions to engage in early marriage and examine its impacts on their lives. Method: This research employed a qualitative descriptive design. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 10 adolescents who had experienced early marriage. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and document review, and analyzed thematically. Results: The primary factors contributing to early marriage in Delu Depa Village, Kodi Bangedo District, were premarital pregnancy (2 cases), economic hardship (4 cases), and limited educational attainment (4 cases). The consequences included psychological, health, and social impacts. Psychologically, participants reported experiencing stress, anxiety, and depression. Health-related risks included complications associated with immature reproductive organs, such as premature birth, obstructed labor, and preeclampsia. Social impacts included stigma, limited social interaction, school dropout, and employment in low-skilled jobs to fulfill daily needs. Conclusion: Early marriage poses significant risks to adolescents' psychological well-being, physical health, and social functioning. Strengthened preventive efforts and targeted interventions are needed to reduce its prevalence and mitigate negative consequences.

The purpose of this education is to increase public awareness, especially among teenagers, of the impacts of early marriage through educational seminars and Service-Learning-based outreach in Naga Kesiangan Village. Early marriage remains a critical issue in Indonesia, often associated with health risks, psychological stress, and limited educational and social opportunities for young people. The Service-Learning approach was chosen because it not only provides knowledge transfer but also actively engages participants in reflection and discussion, ensuring that the learning process is more contextual and sustainable. The method used was Service-Learning, involving 30 teenagers aged 15–19 years, 15 parents, and 5 community leaders who were purposively selected for their direct relevance to the issue. Activities included seminars, small group discussions, interactive question-and-answer sessions, and collective reflection. The results of the activity showed a significant increase in participants’ understanding, from 42% (pre-test) to 81% (post-test). Participants gained a deeper understanding of the health, psychological, social, and educational risks of early marriage and were encouraged to delay marriage by choosing positive alternatives through education and skill development. This program also strengthened the role of families and community leaders as preventive agents by fostering collective awareness and support. Thus, educational seminars integrated with Service-Learning prove to be effective and replicable strategies to prevent early marriage practices, while also empowering communities to build healthier, more resilient generations.

Child marriage remains a serious issue in many regions of Indonesia, including Sampang Regency, Madura. Despite the implementation of laws that set the minimum legal age for marriage, early marriages are still widespread and bring various negative impacts, including educational dropout, reproductive health risks, and socio-economic problems. This study aims to analyze the impact of child marriage using the Street-Level Bureaucracy approach developed by Michael Lipsky (2010). This approach focuses on how front-line policy implementers-such as officials from the Office of Religious Affairs (KUA), Religious Court judges, social service officers, and community leaders-interpret and enforce child marriage prevention policies at the local level. This research employs a qualitative method with data collected through in-depth interviews with policy implementers and affected community members. The findings indicate that policy implementation is heavily influenced by the discretion of street-level bureaucrats and is shaped by local cultural values and social pressures. Variations in how policies are applied lead to inconsistent outcomes in child marriage prevention. The study also highlights that child marriage often results in school dropout, emotional and financial unpreparedness, and reproductive health risks.

Early marriage is a social phenomenon that occurs a lot among teenagers, especially in rural areas such as Waiara Village, Kewapante Subdistrict. Early marriage is still a social problem that is often found in various regions, including in Waiara Village, Kewapante Subdistrict. This study aims to examine the effect of early marriage on adolescent education. The approach used was qualitative through in-depth interviews with teenagers who married young, their parents and educators in the village. The research findings revealed that early marriage has a negative impact on adolescents' education, such as increased dropout rates, low levels of engagement in further education and decreased motivation to learn. In addition, the huge responsibilities that come with early marriage often make adolescents focus more on household affairs than education. This study recommends government and community interventions to increase understanding of the importance of education and the adverse effects of early marriage

Marriage is an institution that binds two individuals in a relationship officially recognized religion, law and customs. This becomes the foundation important in building a happy family life and sustainable. However, early marriage, especially under the age of 20, poses serious challenges. Teenagers often marry too young not ready to handle the responsibilities of marriage and the risks of experiencing health and economic problems. This problem occurs throughout Indonesia, reflects the complexity of social and economic problems. The need for action strong preventive and intervention to overcome early marriage and improve community welfare. Qualitative descriptive research uses an interview approach and data analysis. Combining qualitative methods, this research explores socio-economic factors that influence early marriage. The aim is to provide a holistic understanding for more effective development policies. Early marriage has a serious impact on individuals and society, influenced by social, economic factors and parental influence. Children or teenagers who marry at a young age are at risk of facing health, educational and economic problems, poverty and gender inequality. Steps such as upgrading education, women's empowerment, and economic development It is necessary to reduce early marriage and deal with its impacts appropriately.  

A human being was created to live in pairs as husband and wife through marriage. Marriage is a spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife with the aim of forming a happy and eternal family or household. Ideally, women marry at the age of 21-25 years, while men at the age of 25-28 years. It is recommended that getting married at this age can be done in terms of the health of the woman's reproductive organs, which are ready to conceive and give birth. Likewise, men of this age are ready to fulfill their obligations as head of the family (Fatmawati etal., 2019).  This community service activity takes the form of counseling about the impact of early marriage on teenagers in Darul Amin Village, Lawe Alas District, Southeast Aceh Regency. This activity was attended by 30 participants with the aim of increasing young women's knowledge about the impact of early marriage on young women. The results of this activity were an increase in the knowledge of young women before and after being given counseling, namely from an average knowledge score of 50 to 80. It is hoped that this activity can be useful for young women and not to engage in early marriage to prevent the effects, namely miscarriage, anemia, birth weight low, sexually transmitted diseases.

This final work aims to visualize the various negative impacts caused by early marriage on the lives of children resulting from the marriage in a surrealist painting. The hope of this work is to increase public knowledge and awareness and enrich ideas in realizing surrealist painting. The method used by the author is the art concertium method which consists of: (1) Preparation, in the form of observation, collection of information and ideas. (2) Elaboration, to determine the main idea through analysis, abstraction, generalization, and transmutation. (3) Synthesis, to realize the concept of the artwork. (4) Realization of the concept into various art media. (5) Completing it into the final form of the artwork. These stages are a reference for the author in working on the painting. Based on the understanding and determination of the idea, the author can visualize 10 works with the titles: first "Cage", second "Control", third "Silent", fourth "Gloomy", fifth "Free", sixth "Grow", seventh "Towards Light", eighth "Tertindih", ninth "Melebur", tenth "Anger".

In the background of early marriage is an underage marriage, in this case the preparation of a child or teenager is not fully maximised, both in mental, psychological, and even material preparation. When marrying at an early age, teenagers do not have enough knowledge about marriage, family and do not know how to manage conflict well, so that it will cause quarrels in the family and make the marriage less harmonious. Character education is the process of instilling character as well as providing seeds so that children are able to grow character, especially when running life, in other words, students not only understand education as a form of knowledge, but also make it a part of life and consciously live based on that value. This research is a descriptive qualitative field research. The key informants of this research are young women who married at an early age. The method of collecting data is through observation and interviews. Based on the results of the study, it shows that early marriage has an impact on adolescents such as economy, health, education, besides that early marriage also has an impact on children's character education such as a sense of responsibility, mutual respect, socialisation.

Early marriage is a phenomenon that is rampant in society, especially teenagers. Tradition and gender inequality are the main factors of early marriage. Significant impacts are experienced by adolescents due to early marriage. This study aims to describe the impact of early marriage on adolescents caused by traditional factors and gender gaps. The research method used is literature study analysis and documentation study by observing documentary videos. Coding and tabulation processes were carried out to test the validity and reliability of the data. The results showed that early marriage in adolescents is influenced by tradition and the gender gap. This suggests factors such as family pressure, local traditions, and lack of opportunities in education may reinforce the practice of early marriage. Emile Durkheim's structural functional theory analysis also highlights how early marriage functions in maintaining social stability, but also emphasizes the need to reduce the negative impact on gender inequality. Concrete measures such as sexual education, women's empowerment, and policy changes are needed to address the problem of early marriage in adolescents.

Self-marriage is a big problem in various countries, one of which is Indonesia. Due to this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO, 2021) also emphasizes that delaying the age of marriage can improve family welfare. The aim of this research is to identify the factors that cause early marriage in Indonesia, causing early marriage for perpetrators, children and the surrounding community, various efforts that can be made to prevent and overcome early marriage in Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative approach by collecting various data such as articles and journals on early marriage. Early marriage can occur due to various factors such as economic factors, parental factors, accidents (marriage due to accident), family traditions, local customs. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), early marriage is a marriage carried out officially or unofficially by a person before the age of 18 and has been carried out in various regions. To encourage the current rate of increase in the problem of early marriage, an innovation program was formed, namely the Action of GenRe program. as a promotive and preventive effort against cases of early marriage, it can help teenagers, society and the government in raising healthy and moral teenagers so that it can reduce the occurrence of early marriage.

Marriage involves individual rights such as opinion, privacy non-discrimination. Early marriage is the practice of marriage involving one or both partners who are still young, where both are still under the legal age or generally recognized age of adulthood. Early marriage can be influenced by various factors, namely social, pressures. Family involvement, cultural norms, and gender inequality can also play an important role in the decision to marry early. Early marriage of minors creates legal problems, which involve violations of children's rights and also gender inequality. The age for marriage must be completely mature, which is 19 years for men and 16 years for women. If both of them are still young, or you could say like young onions, their marriage will always be filled with problems. Both of them still have the same high level of egoism, are still children and still only think for a few days. In Indonesia Regulates the second amendment to Law no. 1 of 1974 confirms that the minimum age limit is 19 years, and 16 years for women. A woman is someone who has reproductive organs which are related to the ability to give birth to children. Meanwhile, a man is someone who has reproductive organs that play a role in reproduction itself. In Indonesia, the case of early marriage is still a very serious and vulnerable issue. As reported by the KEMENKO PMK, it was stated that there were around 1.2 million cases of early marriage in Indonesia. The proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married before the age of 18 was 11.21% of the total number of children. This means that around 1 in 9 women aged 20-24 years were married as children. Meanwhile, around 1 in 100 men aged 20-24 years were married as children. Due to the large number of cases regarding underage marriage, the government's role must be agile and fast in dealing with important cases like this. The government must play a role in preventing how to prevent cases of underage marriage from increasing every year.

Early marriage is a social phenomenon that involves marriage at a very young age, often before reaching adulthood or the legal age for marriage. This practice has a significant impact on children's rights, well-being and gender equality around the world. This article explains the phenomenon of early marriage, including the causes, impacts, and efforts to overcome this problem. The causes of early marriage vary, including cultural, religious, economic and social factors. Early marriage is often linked to gender inequality, social pressure and poverty. The impacts of early marriage include higher health risks, interrupted education, and increased risk of domestic violence, especially among girls. Efforts have been made globally to reduce early marriage through legislation, education, and awareness. Laws and regulations have been introduced to set a minimum age for marriage, while education and outreach programs aim to change society's views regarding this practice. While there has been progress in addressing the issue of early marriage, complex challenges remain, and cross-sector collaboration remains key to achieving positive change. Early marriage is an issue that requires serious attention from society, government and non-governmental organizations to protect children's rights and promote gender equality

Violence against children is an arbitrary act that can harm children both physically and psychologically. One of the causes of domestic violence against children is early marriage. Children who witness domestic violence or are victims of violence themselves have long-term physical and mental health risks. Children who witness domestic violence between their parents are also at higher risk of committing domestic violence in the future. The solution to preventing early marriage and child domestic violence can be to collaborate with relevant agencies and institutions in the field to hold youth training regarding the impact of early marriage and parenting training for parents regarding how to raise their children well.

Arly marriage is a marriage carried out by someone who is relatively young. The relatively young age referred to is the age of puberty, namely between 10-19 years of age. One area in Indonesia, namely Pandan Kasturi sub-district, Sirimau District, Ambon City, Maluku Province, has a lot of early marriages. Early marriages that occur are caused by several factors and their impacts, one of which is domestic violence, domestic violence occurs because of selfish feelings between husband and wife, differences of opinion, not wanting to give in between husband and wife, wanting to win alone. and ended with domestic violence. Domestic violence occurs due to the mental and mental immaturity of each partner, so they do not really understand how to resolve the problems that occur in their household, so that the impact that occurs is physical, mental, psychological violence and so on. The aim of the community service implementation activity is to educate the importance of knowledge about domestic violence and early marriage in order to avoid or reduce domestic violence and early marriage in Pandan Kasturi Village.

Early marriage is a reproductive health problem that has a negative impact on adolescent survival. The limited knowledge of adolescents about reproductive health has an impact on a lack of attitude which results in adolescents committing deviant acts. Interventions to increase youth knowledge and attitudes about the impact of early marriage are urgently needed, one of which is peer education. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of health promotion using the peer education method on the knowledge and attitudes of young women about the impact of early marriage. The design of this study was the Pre-Experimental Pretest-Posttest without Control Group. The sample in this study were 59 class VII girls using the accidental sampling technique. The results showed a p value of 0.000, so it could be concluded that peer education was effective in increasing the knowledge and attitudes of young women about the impact of early marriage. It is hoped that schools can cooperate with local health agencies in the form of counseling and health education.

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