 The Lived Experience of Early Marriage in Jordan: The Perspective of Adolescent Girls and Young WomenLina Mrayan and Salwa Obeisat SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, 21582440211048895 Abstract: Child or early marriage, primarily due to cultural factors, continues as a tradition and seems to be a growing phenomenon in Jordan. This research explores the lived experience of early marriage from the perspective of adolescent girls and young women. A qualitative research design and in-depth face-to-face interviews in the Arabic language were conducted with 36 female subjects, married before the age of 18 and all newlyweds, married for less than 3 years. Six major themes emerged from the interviews to describe the experience of the participants: “Feeling remorse about getting married early†; “Loss of authority and feeling powerless†; “Reasons behind early marriage†; “Feeling pressure to have the first baby†; “Early marriage and pregnancy health consequences†; and “The positive aspects of an early marriage.†The lived experience revealed in this study confirm the overall negative effect of girls entering marriage at a young age, Early marriage is a violation of human rights, and robs girls of their childhood, education, work, and other life choices, in addition to the reported adverse psychological and physical effects. Keywords: early marriage; adolescent girls; child marriage; Jordan (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:11:y:2021:i:3:p:21582440211048895 DOI: 10.1177/21582440211048895 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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