Marriage: By choice or by need?

I"m not really an expert to say anything but all i can share & tell you is based from my own experience. You see i got married at a very young age 18 & got pregnant, since my mom's belief with our cultures with regards with "getting pregnant" (big thing)... so with that i could say, in this case it's a matter of NEED. NEED because It's against their beliefs, I need a father figure for my unborn child & the society will not accept you if I don't get married, which by the way in this case, the society thing is my moms idea. ^_^ So there...! But if I am to choose It would have been much better if I was given the chance to "choose" with what I wanted at that time.....