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This study aimed to analyze the influence of family characteristics, quality of marriage, and family well-being toward the quality of parental environment among early marriage families. Research is done in two villages in Ciampea District, Bogor Regency, West Java Province. Samples consist of 70 families selected purposively with consideration of husband and wife married at a young age and have children aged 0-6 years old. Data were collected through interviews and observations and analyzed with descriptive statistics and multiple linear regressions. The analysis found that majority family had marriage quality in the medium category. Meanwhile, a majority of the family were categorized as prosperous family based on objective well-being indicator and had subjective family well-being in the medium category. This research also found that the majority of quality of parental environmental for children aged 0-36 months was categorized as low environment and children aged 37-72 months in the medium category. Marriage age, the marriageable age of wife, marriage quality, and subjective well-being significant and positive influenced toward the quality of parenting environment.

Number of female-headed families tended to increase in Indonesia. The new family structures with maternal functions simultaneously as head of the family led to various adjustments, especially to maintain the family welfare. This research was aimed to analyze social capital, economic coping strategy, and objective well-being of female-headed families. This research held in Bogor District and used cross sectional design. This research involved 53 female-headed families who have been became single-parent since last two years. The families were chosen by snowball sampling and the data was obtained by interview using questionnaire. The result showed that more than half of female-headed families had income over the poverty line. Analysis of logistic regression discovered female-headed’s age had significant chance to have positive influence on family objective well-being. Family objective well-being was influenced by social capital variable particularly in dimension of trust and social network. This research estimated that decreasing of cutting back expenses strategy will give higher chance to identify family to be more prosperous objectively.

Program of Women’s Movement for Home garden Optimization (GPOP) was one of the government's efforts to encourage families to manage home garden optimally in order to improve the family well-being. This program was conducted since 2011 by Ministry of Agriculture. The aim of this research was to analyze the well-being of GPOP participant’s family and nonparticipant’s family in Depok City, West Java Province; and to analyze the factors that influenced the well-being. This research involved 60 GPOP participants’ family and 60 nonparticipant’s family that chosen by random sampling. Family well-being measured by using objective indicator based on poverty line according to BPS and subjective indicator based on assessment of wive on various aspects of her family well-being. This study found that even families who did not become participants of GPOP had higher achievement of optimization of the home garden than participants. The results showed that most familyies, both participants and nonparticipants, had been prosperous according to the measurement of two indicator, objective and subjectife assessment. However, the level of the family well-being of participants was higher than nonparticipants. Moreover, family’s well-being was affected by the amount of family assets, but it was not influenced by membership of GPOP.