INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN YOUTH TO PREVENT EARLY MARRIAGE

Abstract

Adolescents experience various changes in the form of rapid growth
and development both biologically and psychologically. Biologically,
adolescents experience the development of reproductive organs
which are marked by signs such as primary sex and secondary sex
signs. Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and
social health, not merely free from disease or disability related to the
reproductive system, function and process. The importance of
increasing reproductive health knowledge in adolescents is to prevent
early marriage which can make adolescents experience
unpreparedness in the reproductive organs and prevent unwanted
pregnancies, complications during pregnancy and complications that
can occur in the fetus while in the womb or already born. So at a very
young age, urgent attention is needed to promote health education
regarding reproduction and prevention of early marriage