Early Marriage Research Paper

Do you think that, do you want to be happy forever by making a right marriage or do you want to live single and unhappy until the end of your life? The terms wife and husband means couple. But there is not actual means especially. Marriage is an essential part of the social norms and it is for a reason. Marriage means a new household, it means keeping a lineage alive. In addition to that, marriage means sharing different life, care about live in love. Briefly it is a feeling of respect, love, loyalty and trust that must exist in a healthy and happy marriage. However, in the past, people used to get married at a younger age usually nearby 18 and early marriage causes severe trauma and devastation. But modern society individuals increased the age of marriage. According to the compilation made by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), the average age of marriage in Turkey in the last 5 years has increased by 0.4 in males and 0.6 in females. Therefore, people should not marry early, but find

Rogers (1995, p.515-526) believe that single people are unlucky than married people. Because they can die of unexpected reasons like accidents or diseases like suicide and cirrhosis. Also, Savrun (1999, p.15) studied that whether there was a relationship between depression and marriage. It is also evident from this research that being married is a factor that reduces depression. Furthermore, on the average, married couples have higher incomes then single individuals. Marriage makes individuals to make plans not for their individual selves, but for their family, such higher level of responsibility makes them to earn more money, and since they have more regular lives, they can economize more. This will mean a higher standard of living both for parents and for