Abstract:
Marriage is a very important issue in the course of one’s life marriage is not
just a matter of two beings, but also a family problem, so it also involves the child’s
family to find a mate, marriage through a match-making system of ten occurs the
woman are the men who had enough maturity level.
Based on this phenomenon in the study was made with formulation of the
problem as follows: how do the characteristics of perpetrators under the age of
marriage? What are the root causes of underage marriage? How does the impact of
underage marriage in the in the implementation of family function? The porpose of
this study was to determine the characteristics of perpetrators under age of marriage,
to find out the causes of underage marriage. To determine the causes of underage
marriage in the implementation of family functioning.
This research is a descriptive qualitative research who is the subject of this
research is that families do macthmaking marriage under the villager’s sumatera
province. Sampling by non probability that the snow ball sampling technique. Based
on the results of these studies found that the perpetrators of the marriage under the
age of most the economy is low and that causes a person to get marriage under the
age of 20% is internal factor pair, 4 pair. Of external factor such as 20% partner 5
couples for cultural or social custom to marry off a child at the age of youth, 40% of
couples because of their low economic thought that the economy could sustain a
married family and 20% of couples 5 pair due to education of dropping out school.
While the family function in the female partner is not running as it should, especially
in the case of children.
