INTRODUCTION

 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION

Every single human being wants to be married someday. In at least one aspect, marriage is like football. In a close game, the winning team is usually the one that made the most significant adjustments in strategy along the way. Marriage before the age of 18 is a reality for many young women. In many parts of the world parents encourage the marriage of their daughters while they are still children in hopes that the marriage will benefit them both financially and socially, while also relieving financial burdens on the family. Marriageable age is the age at which a person is allowed to be marry, either as of right or subject to parental or other forms of consent. The age and other requirements vary between countries. Additionally, the age at which a person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity may be below the marriage age. Similarly with other countries, Malaysia also have law that permitted person that want to get married only at the age of 21, 18 with parental consent, 16 for females with special marriage license. There is variety of ranges of age Malaysian gets married nowadays. Some of them get married early and some is quite late. Teenagers whom are further their study right after SPM mostly not interested in getting married too soon. There is so much criticism on early marriage issue that might change the perspective of the early marriage itself towards teenagers nowadays. Some says early marriage gives more disadvantages toward a person and some disagree with the statement.
 * 1.1 BACKGROUND**


 * 1.2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES **

· To identify range of age of UMP students for ready to be married · To find out the support of marriage at an early age amongst UMP students


 * 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS **

· What age that UMP student is ready to married? · What will UMP student takes if someone closed to them is getting married at an early age?


 * 1.4 DEFINITION OF TERMS **

//Marriage// · A relationship that requires proactive adjustment and deep understanding between husband and wife.

// <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 12pt;">Early age marriage // <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">An immature married that will produce more problems in the relationship because of not have much fundamental in understanding of relationship itself. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 12pt;">