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This study was performed to investigate the points of view of the couples that are at the initial stage of marriage in vvhich the decision of marriage is made. İt was aimed to define the ideas of these couples about marriage, family and being parents. The work group was composed of 100 males and females who applied to the Kocaeli City Saraybahçe Municipality Matrimony Office in order to get married and who accepted to participate to the study. İt was defined that the 100 couples in this research vvould set up small families composed of husbands, vvives and children and that %75.5 percent of them vvould live in cities, %21.5 of them in tovvns and %3 in villages. %81 of the participants stated that the description and/or the aim of forming a family was to "acquire a mate or a friend". Most of the participants expressed that they vvould like to have a baby after a year. %88.5 of them stated their reasons to be a parent as "to grow up a child, to experience the feeling of being a parent". The basic factor for the individuals in forming a healthy family, thus a healthy society, is to be well aware of their selves and to be able to chose his/her own mates. Therefore, the youths who will be mothers and parents in the future should be grovvn up in a healthy family environment, and as self-aware individuals who have their own autonomies. Yrd. Doç. KO.Ü. Kocaeli Sağlık Y.O. Hemşirelik Bölümü

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