Omar, Maria Hussein

THE PERCEIVED IMPACT OF EARLY MARRIAGE FOR THE YOUNG GIRLS IN MOGADISHU SOMALIA / MARIA HUSSEIN OMAR; SUPERVISOR: DR. GÖKHAN AKBAY - vii, 82 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD

Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Social Work Department

Includes bibliography (sheets 62-73)

ABSTRACT
The essence of this study was to examine the perceived impact of early marriage for
young girls in Mogadishu Somalia: a case study of women visiting Banadir and
Madina hospitals getting maternal health and child health care. It is one of the regions
where instances of early marriage are highly wide spread. Given, the significant
number of socioeconomic difficulties, it is necessary to determine whether or not the
socio-economic are as a result of early marriage, and it is also necessary to determine
the contribution of early marriage to the already-existing socio-economic challenges
facing the communities in the district so that appropriate measures can be taken into
consideration. The research was conducted in these two hospitals in Mogadishu.
This research adopted a quantitative research method. It was directed at examining the
impact of early marriage on young girl: a case study of women visiting Banadir and
Madina hospitals was getting maternal health and child health care where out of
600women visiting, 333were chosen by random sampling for this study which was
restructured into SPSS data. The study contains primary data collected via
questionnaire from the 10 to 28 of November 2022.
The study revealed that all four hypotheses (positive effect of the total asset as a
financial inclusion on net income as the profitability of SMEs) out of four developed
(from the number of bank ATMs, number of bank branches, total asset as well as the
net interest margin) during the course of this study was supported. It was discovered
that early young girl marriage has a significant impact on the young girl’s health,
education, psychological and social, and economic.
Keywords: Early marriage, Health Impact, Psychological and Social Impact, Young
Female Bride


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