Unwanted Pregnancies and Early Marriage Child Aged 13-18 Years

Children’s unwanted pregnancy and early marriage is still quite high in Indonesia. Parents’ role have important factor on Children’s unwanted pregnancy and early marriage. The objective of this study were to determine parents’ role which affecting unwanted pregnancies and early marriage aged 13-18 years. A crosssectional study was conducted on 60 families who had children 13-18 years who were married. A guided self-administered questionnaire, which included the characterisctic respondents, parental permissiveness, reproductive function, education function, socioculture function, and religion function, were used. Approximately 61.7% permissive parents, 68.3% of family had supporting religious function, 25.0% less supporting the reproductive function, which were significantly (p < 0.05) associated with unwanted pregnancies. Permissive parents had 2.18 times greater unwanted pregnancy (PR = 2,18, 95% CI 1.21, 3.92, p < 0.05) compared to less permissive parents when adjusted for other variables. This study highlights a high unwanted pregnancies and early marriage that is associated with parental permissiveness, religious function, and reproductive function of families.