الزواج المبكر وآثاره في محافظة كربلاء المقدسة للمدة 2003-2020 (دراسة في جغرافية السكان)

The Early Marriage and its Influence in Holy Kerbal Province from 2003 to 2020: A Study in Human Geography

Abstract:
Marriage is a social phenomenon found in all human communities due to the social and economic changes that happened in our society, marriage as a social system was also affected by many troubles where the early marriage is considered the most fundamental one, which became a noticeable social phenomenon in our Kerbala community nowadays.
Such marriage may be interpreted as absence of families’ learning, weakness of social awareness, or because of the bad economic conditions that enforce the family to marry girls in an early age. Early marriage has many negative drawbacks on society especially on youths in the beginning of their age for it constrains their completion to the educational process and also hinders their social, economic, and healthy situations particular girls due to their exposure to psychological and physiological pressure in that early period state.
Therefore, the aim of studying early marriage phenomenon is to know some of the married social and demographic personal features in an early age to know causes, drawbacks, and good points of the early age, and presenting some suggestions of face the early marriage phenomenon.
The study concluded that the province got the first rank in age (17) with a number (1168) with a percentage ( 38.3%); the second rank in age (16) with a number (1017) with a percentage ( 33.2%); the third rank in age (15) with a number (560) with a percentage ( 18.3%); the fourth rank in age (14) with a number (232) with a percentage ( 7.6%); the last rank age (13) with a number (86) with a percentage ( 2.8%).
Concerning the male and female, we find that the age category (17) was the highest limit for both genders when it registered (40.3% and 37.1 %) successively. In return, age (13) registered the highest limit of both genders when it registered 3.5% and 2.5 % successively.
We find that the study, in the city and countryside levels, registered age (17) for the highest percentages. So, city registered the following percentages ( 40.3 %. 36.5 %, 37.* %) successively while in countryside, the following percentage ( 40.4%, 38,2%, 38.7% ) were registered successively for all levels including males, females, and the total; while we notice that age (13) got the lowest percentages in the city when it registered 3.2%, 2.3%, 2.6% successively and in country side, it registered 4.6%, 2.6%, 3.2%) successively for males, females, and the total.