ظاهرة زواج القاصرات و تأثرها بالطبقة الاقتصادية : دراسة وصفية نوعية

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The aim of the study: The study seeks to shed light on the extent to which the marriage of minors is affected by the economic class in terms of sociology.

Methodology: The two researchers used the qualitative descriptive approach for its suitability for the purposes and objectives of the study in providing a description and analysis on a sample of minors in Jerash governorate.

The sample consisted of 36 minors who were chosen by the snowball method.

Through the standardized interview tool, which contained two axes, the first axis is demographic information and the second axis is a set of open questions.

They were interviewed and the responses were analyzed and discussed, and the study concluded with a set of results: The most important of them was that the marriage of minors is considered a phenomenon linked to the lower economic class (working, poor) and that is based on several answers, where the first order came that most of the underage married women were from families whose income was less than (500) Jordanian dinars.

The poor economic situation of the family came as the second most important driver for marriage Underage girls, and to improve the living situation, and in the third place came those who were forced into marriage at an early age by the family.

Conclusion: The phenomenon of underage marriage is affected by the economic class in society, and one of the most important causes of the phenomenon of underage marriage is the economic situation of the minor girl’s family.