2014
DOI: 10.1177/0192513x14538025
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Early Marriage

Abstract: This article analyses trends in early marriage in Turkey over a period of 30 years from 1978 to 2008, and factors associated with early marriage, based on data from the 1978 Turkish Fertility Survey and 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. The proportion of all women aged 20 to 24 who married before age 18 declined from 38% in 1978 to 14% in 2008. For ever-married women aged 20 to 24 years, the article examines risk factors for the common explanatory variables such as educational level of women, childhoo… Show more

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“…A woman in her thirties said that those girls who went to school after puberty might find it difficult to get married. While some literature argued that education level 'can be considered as both a cause and a consequence of early marriage,' 65 we only found instances of families, particularly among our Arab respondents, pulling their daughters out of school early as a strategy to make them more marriageable. When a male member of the family was involved in an interview, the extended family influence was less mentioned.…”
Section: Ethnic Conflict Political Mobilization and Gender Inequalicontrasting
confidence: 73%
“…A woman in her thirties said that those girls who went to school after puberty might find it difficult to get married. While some literature argued that education level 'can be considered as both a cause and a consequence of early marriage,' 65 we only found instances of families, particularly among our Arab respondents, pulling their daughters out of school early as a strategy to make them more marriageable. When a male member of the family was involved in an interview, the extended family influence was less mentioned.…”
Section: Ethnic Conflict Political Mobilization and Gender Inequalicontrasting
confidence: 73%
“…Five studies examined the association between early marriage and education, in which the components were less than secondary, secondary or more, illiterate, literate, junior high school primary and incomplete primary were found to have a significant association (Sanjaya et al, 2018;Shaud & Asad, 2018;Uddin, 2015;United Nations, 1989;Yuksel-Kaptanoglu & Ergocmen, 2014).…”
Section: Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Early marriage have been reported and is a trend among adolescent women to varying degrees across many countries, especially in developing countries like Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, Viet Nam, India, Bangladesh and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Goli, Rammohan, & Singh, 2015;Hamed & Yousef, 2018;Hong Le, Tran, Nguyen, & Fisher, 2014;Sanjaya et al, 2018;Shaud & Asad, 2018;Uddin, 2015;UNICEF-UNFPA, 2017;United Nations, 1989;Wells, 2017;Yuksel-Kaptanoglu & Ergocmen, 2014). The age at first marriage varies from one area to another in the world.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The family income in Rupees for each group was then transformed into Egyptian pounds. The SES classes were then identified as high (total score of [26][27][28][29], intermediate (total score of [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], and low (total score <10).…”
Section: Tool Ii:-the Socio-economic Statues (Ses Assessment)mentioning
confidence: 99%