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Introduction and Purpose:The purpose of this study is to determine the opinions of the university youth about marriage. Material and Method: It is a descriptive study and the senior class students who study in Baskent University Health Science Faculty 2006-2007 Academic Year Spring Semester and also have partners (n=70) are taken into the research. Questionnaire form that is developed by the researcher is used for determining the students’ and parents’ sociodemographic characteristics and their characteristics relating to the marriage, disengaging and the sexual life. Result: %58.6 of students are female, %41.4 are male, %80 are 20-22 years old, %20 are 23 and older ages, %4.3 are engaged, %88.6 are engaged to be married, %7.1 are living together with their partners and generally their economic conditions and their parents’ education status is higher than average. Most of the students define marriage as “taking responsibility” (%94.2) and as “sharing the life” (%98.5). They designate that the most appropriate marrying age is between 25 and 29, more than half of them (%57.1) state that they think marriage with their present partner, %94.2 have a point of view that the most important thing for the marriage is the partner’s being good-natured and %97.1 tell that the partners have to be educated, %82.9 denote that they will take the decision of their parents after they decide and %84.3 say that they do not endorse the marriages that are made by meeting on internet. Conclusion: According to the results that are obtained from the research, they generally have sensitive and attentive approach to the marriages but they are hopefull about marriages. They beleive that they can handle with the communication problems but they think that they can not completely cope with the sexual problems and state that they need a premarital consultancy.

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