Preferensi Usia Menikah, Keinginan Memiliki Anak, Nilai Anak, dan Kesiapan Berkeluarga pada Mahasiswa IPB

Abstract

Family readiness is one way to measure a person's level of readiness to build a family and have children. It is important to study the perception of having children along with the emergence of the childfree phenomenon. This study aims to analyze the influence of age preferences for marriage, desire to have children, and children's values on family readiness among IPB students. This study was attended by 206 respondents, aged 19-24 years, and single status. Retrieval of research data was carried out online using a purposive sampling method. The results showed that age preferences for marriage ranged from 24-25 years, most of the samples stated their desire to have children, as well as the value of children and family readiness in the samples were in the moderate category. The correlation test showed that age preference for marriage had a significant negative relationship with family readiness, while the value of children and the desire to have children had a significant positive relationship with family readiness. PLS test results, the child's value variable has a significant positive effect on family readiness. The higher the value of the benefits of children owned by a person can increase the readiness to start a family. This research suggests that it is important for young adults to increase the value of their children by building positive communication with their parents.