Description:
Early marriage is one cause of perinatal mortality, mothers who are too young are often emotionally and
physically immature and mothers’ knowledge of antenatal care is still lacking. National data of BKKBN in
2014 showed the percentage of early marriages in Kalimantan Selatan is 55,8 per 1.000 population
exceeded the national average figure of early marriage at 40 per 1.000 population. The objective of this
research is to describe factors associated with events in early marriage in Banjar distric. This research is a
quantitative using a case-control design. The results showed factors associated with early marriage is the
attitude of girls (p-value=0,011), culture girls (p-value = 0.011) and exposure of pornography (p-value =
0.000). Therefore, it needs socialization maturation and increasing the age of marriage counseling program
cares for teenagers in order to reduce the incidence of early marriage
Keywords: Attitude, culture, exposure of pornography, girl, early marriage