Early Marriage

Trends in Turkey, 1978-2008

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2347466
AutoresIlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Ilknur Yuksel‐Kaptanoglu (0000-0001-5969-1238, Hacettepe University), Banu Ergöçmen (0000-0002-2132-2776, Hacettepe University), Banu Akadli Ergöçmen (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
Año2014
Volumen35
Número12
Páginas1707-1724
Fecha de publicación2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192513x14538025
OpenAlexW2132343864
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas12

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, childhood place of residence, type of place of residence, region and spousal age gap, using logistic regression analysis. For women, early marriage is associated with all the explanatory variables in both surveys. Increasing women's education and achievement of gender equality in all spheres of life emerge as essential steps to cope with the problem of early marriage and to eliminate child marriage

Age at first marriage · Childlessness · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Explanatory model · Family planning · Fertility · Logistic regression · National Survey of Family Growth · Population · Research methodology · Residence · Sociology · Turkish · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Psychology