In Kedah, statistics show a 35% increase in marriage applications involving underage individuals between 2008 and 2010. Of total 90% involved girls under 16, One of the reasons cited by parents for consenting to their underage daughters to marry was for economic relief. The statistics are worrying as they show child marriage to be a significant problem in Malaysia.
In Kedah, statistics show a 35% increase in marriage applications involving underage individuals between 2008 and 2010. Of total 90% involved girls under 16, One of the reasons cited by parents for consenting to their underage daughters to marry was for economic relief. The statistics are worrying as they show child marriage to be a significant problem in Malaysia.
In Kedah, statistics show a 35% increase in marriage applications involving underage individuals between 2008 and 2010. Of total 90% involved girls under 16, One of the reasons cited by parents for consenting to their underage daughters to marry was for economic relief. The statistics are worrying as they show child marriage to be a significant problem in Malaysia.
-Khalida -Noratikah Binti Che Isa -Nur Farzana Binti Mohamad Sofi
LECTURERS NAME: Puan Jamilah Bee DATE (of submission): 6 January 2013
1.1 Introduction
Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as a moment of celebration and a milestone in adult life. Nowadays, early marriage among teenagers increases day by day.For example,in Kedah,statistics from the state Islamic religious department show a 35% increase in marriage applications involving underage individuals between 2008 and 2010.The department receive 75 marriage applications from underage individuals in 2008,99 in 2009 and 101 in 2010.Of total 90% involved girls under 16.One of the reasons cited by parents for consenting to their underage daughters to marry was that the girls were too wild and beyond their control.They felt that getting them married would be the best solution. Another was for economic relief.The statistics are worrying as they show child marriage to be a significant problem in Malaysia.
1.2 Definition of key term
Early marriage: married in a young age
1.3 Statement of problems
It will come as no surprise that people are not agree about early marriage among teenagers today.It is due to several factors. One of the factor is because of teenagers not fully understands yet about the responsibility in marriage.They do not know their character as a husband or wife. Actually, we should hold very big responsibility as a wife and mom,while husband and dad.If they do not responsible in their character,their family will in trouble. Next, teenagers not really know how to take care of their children. After married, of course they will have their own child.But, as a young teenager they do not know how to take care of their baby. Apart from that,in their young age,teenagers still not achieve fully puberty.So,it will give bad effect as they are pregnant in young age.It also will effect for their baby in the future.
1.4 Justification of the problem
This research is very important to see people in society agree or not about early marriage among teenagers today.Furthermore, this research, we can make teenagers change their mind that early marriage is not good at all. Actually, after marriage husband and wife must hold big responsibility in a family.So, of course teenagers will not have enough time to separate their time for study and take care of their children.Besides, in early marriage, teenagers still not have enough money to earn their family.Teenagers should focus on study first and successful to have a good job, good salary to earn their family.
1.5 Hypothesis
After make an observation, we came out with several hypotheses on early marriage among teenagers is not good because: i. Teenagers not fully understands yet about the responsibility in marriage ii. Teenagers not really known how to take care of their child iii. Teenagers cannot make right decision for themselves and not matured in thinking iv. Early marriage can cause an increasing of divorce cases v. Early marriage can disturb teenagers successfulness vi. This problem of early marriage still can be barricade
Chapter 2 2.0 Introduction
This chapter outlines the research approach adapted in this research study. This research study investigates early marriage among teenagers. This chapter gave an overview of the appropriate research assumption and case study strategy adapted in this research study. Furthermore, the analytical framework to be used to analyse the materials are given. The research approach detailed in this research will assist in the answering of the research question posses. The succeeding chapter discusses the process of gathering of the materials.
2.1 research sample
The respondents are all among the students of Kolej Mara Kulim (KMKu). They are all among the age of 18 and 19 which is very suitable with our research project. There were no significant race grouping, where all of the student here are Malay. There were 60 females student (60%) and 40 males student (40%) with total 100 students.
2.2 reseacrh instrument
A set of questions has been developed to distribute to all of selected respondent. The question have contained 9 questions with objective question. Each respondent are required to tick their gender and write down their origin and their program. At early phase of questionnaire, the question just asking about their opinion on agreement about early marriage. The development of question required respondent to think about the disadvantages of early marriage. Through our observation and interview, least of the respondent like to marry early and most of them dont want to marry early.
2.3 Data Collection
Data collection was done by distributing the questionnaire to the respondents. After the respondent completed the forms, the questionnaire was collected to carry on the analysis process. They spent 5 to 6 minutes to finish the question without rushing. The researchers will analyse the data obtained and come up with a pattern of answers before plotting them in charts.
3.0 ANALYSIS OF THE FINDINGS
3.1 Gender of the Respondents.
Figure 1: Number of respondents gender
100 questionnaires were distributed to 100 students in Kolej Mara Kulim. Out of 100, 60 respondents were female and 40 were male. There were more female than male because there are more females students compared to male students in Kolej Mara Kulim.
GENDER Male Female 3.1 Can teenagers who got married earlier focus in their studies and be successful in their future?
Figure 2: No. of students agree and disagree about teenagers successfulness if marry earlier.
From the research, we found that 80 of the respondents said that teenagers who got married earlier cannot focus on their study and hard to achieve successfulness. This showed that early marriage are not good because it can be the preventative for the teenagers to success and this prove that our hypothesis is correct.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 YES NO NO. OF STUDENT 3.2 Can early marriage contribute to the increases of divorce cases in our country?
Figure 3: Number of students that agree and disagree about the contribution to divorce cases.
From the survey, we found out that about 73 respondents said yes and agree that early marriage can be the contributors to divorce cases in our country. However, about 27 respondents does not agree and state that early marriage did not contributes to divorce cases but this survey still support our hypothesis since the number of respondents said yes is much more greater than the number of respondent that said no.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 YES NO No. of students
3.3 Things that a 15-17 years old think is the most important to do in their age.
Figure 4: Pie chart of the number of respondents choice in the things that the most important to do in age of 15- 17 years old.
The result of the survey showed that only 10 respondents think that marry was the most important things to do. For the choices of family and study, there were an equal number of respondents agreed to it which it has 25 respondents for each answer. Surprisingly, 40 of the respondents answered playing games were the most important things to do. So this can prove that early marriage among teenagers still can be barricade.
Playing games Marry Study Family
Chapter 4 Conclusion This chapter details the concluding remarks of the dissertation. The purpose of this research study was to identify about the early marriage among teenagers. The review directed the study in order to study the phenomenon. The research approach and analytical framework for answering the research questions were justified. The gathering material and the use of the analytical framework to analyses, interpret and discuss gathered materials were detailed. The analysis, interpretation and discussion produced a numbers of points that assisted in answering the research questions.
The first objective of the study was to investigate if teenagers understand or not about the responsibilities in marriage. The investigation turns out those teenagers not fully understands yet about the responsibility in marriage. This is because they still young and only think about enjoying themselves. The second objective of the study is did teenagers know how to take care of their child? The result is teenagers still need to learn more about how to take care of their child from adult. This is to prevent something like child abuse case from happening. Teenagers cannot make right decision for them and not matured in thinking. Thats why many child abuse cases were recorded. Teenagers always got emotional when its come to babies. They think that babies are annoying and kept crying when something is wrong. From that statement, we can say how teenagers thinking. We cannot deny this fact. That is our third observation from the investigation.
More than that, we also got to investigate that early marriage can cause an increasing of divorce cases. The result turns out those 73 respondents out of 100 agree about the statement. Last but not least, we also came out with objective that early marriage can disrupt teenagers successfulness. That objective is true because teenagers cannot divide their time yet between marriage and studies. This will make them confuse to think about which one is the most important, marriage or studies.
Few procedures were involved in promoting data and information collection. Hence, validate their thesis statement. All the methodology involved was preparing the questionnaire, observation through senses and team members experience.
The data collected were processed to produce useful and meaningful information for future reference. Graph and graphical means were taken from the information for case of pattern observation.
Researchers hypothesis was early marriage among teenagers is not good. Based on the respondents comment, most of them agree with the hypothesis. So, as conclusion, our hypothesis is accepted.