Argumentative Essay
UNDERAGE
MARRIAGE
By: Fatimah Isyti Karimah
What do you think about underage
marriage? Underage marriage is a condition where someone gets married below the
age that is determined by the law of Indonesia, that men have to be 21 years
old to get married and women have to be 21 years old to get married. Although some people think that underage
marriage is bad for people, I believe there are some advantages of underage
marriage.
The first benefit of underage marriage is
decrease free sex. We know that human is given feeling to love another person
and some people use his love in a bad way like free sex. Marriage can make people do
anything with his partner, so they do not
do immoral acts. Besides that, the result of the
research of National Marriage Projects’s 2013 at United State’s of American
says that a person who gets married has a happy life.
Another
benefit of underage marriage is make it easy to get successful early. It means,
a person can reach his success faster than before. Young age is the time to reach a hope. If we get married at that
time, we still have spirit to reach our hope. Besides that, human needs someone to support his success,
like having a partner. For example like Arifin Ilham’s son, Alvin who gets underage
married at the age of 17. Alfin can be successful early because his wife supports him every time. Besides that, if we have a
partner, we can arrange our plan. It
is because our age is still productive to develop our ability and we can work harder than before. And in next period of
life, we will enjoy our success and
happiness.
Many
people think that underage marriage can give negative influences like a man is not ready financially and woman is not ready in her
psychology. A person who gets married, usually he does not have enough readiness to face the next life. Not rarely a couple argues because of financial
problem. Usually this matter will be experienced by a person
who gets married at very young age,
especially
men. However, such an argument completely ignores the fact that many underage
marriages are successful like Alvin and other persons who gets underage
marriage. Alvin says “the underage marriage is one way to avoid
immoral acts.”
In conclusion, it should be clear
that the arguments against underage marriage is not based on the truth. On the
contrary, many people who get married below the age get many advantages that
can support their life, like they can get successful early and they can enjoy
their old period. In my opinion, marriage is a person’s choice. If a person chooses to get married, it means
he has thought about it completely and it is impossible that a person does
anything without thinking first.
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