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  • Abstract: Background: In general, early marriages based only on love without mental and material readiness will have a negative impact on the household. The high case of early marriage is not comparable with the high readiness of adolescents in living life in their marriage, as well as how teens perceive the marriage. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between perception and readiness of marriage to young women in Makassar City. Materials and Methods: The subjects in this study were 375 teenage students 16-18 years old in Makassar. The data collection method used in this study was a questionnaire using a Likert scale that is the scale of marriage perception and the scale of marriage readiness. In this study, the hypothesis was tested using the correlation test, regression test, and the Anova test. Results: The results showed that there was a correlation between Marital Perception and Marital Readiness. From the results of the calculation of linear regression analysis, the significance level of 0,000 or perceptions of marriage affects marriage readiness. Conclusion:The result shows that there is a significant relationship between perceptions of marriage with marriage readiness.