Hubungan Pernikahan Usia Dini dengan Risiko Tindak Kekerasan oleh Ibu pada Anak Usia Prasekolah di Kelurahan Sumbersari Kecamatan Sumbersari Kabupaten Jember (The Relation between Early Marriage and the Risk of Abusing by Mothers Towards her Preschoolers

Abstract

Child abuse is arbitrarily action which can hurt children physically and psychologically. One of many
causes of domestic violence towards children is early marriage. This research aimed to analysis the
the relation between early marriage and the risk of abusing by mothers towards her preschoolers in
Sumbersari, Jember. The research design was analytic survey using cross sectional approach. The
number of sample was 77 people and taken by using purposive sample technique. The instruments
to collect the data were validated and its reliability has been tested. The result of the research
showed that the respondents who did early marriage had a risk of committing domestic violence up
to 29.9% and only 20.8% did not have the risk. The result of chi square test showed that there was
a relation between early marriage and the risk of abusing by mothers towards her preschoolers in
Sumbersari, jember (p value = 0,015; CI= 95%) with OR = 3,528. There were numerous causes of
child abuse the pressure from within the family and early marriage. The psychology of women who
did an early marriage was not ready yet for it so that they tended to do child abuse. The solution for
this problem was nurses could cooperate with related institution in the field to hold health training
for teenagers related to the impact of early marriage and health training for parents related to how
to raise their children.
Keywords: Child abuse, early marriage, preschoolers