The Effect of Early Marriage on Academic Achievement

(A field study of a sample in the city of Baghdad)

Abstract

This research was put forward to find out the most important effect resulting from early marriage for girls from an educational point of view, and here the  problem lies, and the importance of the research is in its social and economic dimensions as it touches the most important institution in society, as for its goals it is to identify the most important reasons leading to early marriage, and stand on its risks With the developmental dimension of women and society, education is the shortest path to sustainable development. The sample of the research consisted of married students under (18) years old who were (100) middle and middle school students. The descriptive and historical method and the social survey method were adopted using the sample method.                                        

Through the results of the field study, it was concluded that early marriage for girls has negative effects on the academic achievement of them, as the vast majority of respondents answered, with a rate of 89% that early marriage affects their academic achievement level due to the burdens placed on the girl at an early age, and 85% Some of them do not believe that early marriage is the best marriage because of the effects that it produces on the girl in terms of education, psychological, health and social, while she is still the childhood age that may lead to divorce sometimes. At the end of the research, the results related to the field study were presented, and we concluded to present a number of recommendations and proposals that would mitigate the effects of early marriage.