Factors Affecting the Age of Youth Marriage in Tehran

The structural and functional status of the family in Iran is changing. One of the important changes is the increase in the age of marriage of young people. It is important to study this change as an indicator for postponing family formation.
In this study, in order to explain the age of marriage of young people, in spite of the social, economic and cultural factors of the society, the choosing spouse space is discussed..
In order to derive research hypotheses the second transitional theory of demography, the cultural transformation of Inglehart, modernization, and the space of choosing spouse has been used.
The research method is survey and its population is all young people during marriage in Tehran (1394). A multi-stage sampling method was used and the sample size was estimated at 379.
The results show that the socioeconomic status of the girl's family with a coefficient of 0.41, socioeconomic status of young girls with a coefficient of 0.25, lack of access to the space of choosing spouse with a coefficient of 0.19 has the greatest impact on the increase of girl's marriage age.
Also, the socioeconomic level of boys with a factor directly affects the increase in their marriage age. In other words, the higher the level of education, income and job status of boys, the age of their marriage increases.
The results show that the socio-economic status of the girl's family and the social status of the young boys have the greatest impact on the increase of their marriage age.
Finally it can be concluded that the inverse relationship between the socio-economic base and the marriage age represents a change in the family's lifestyle and social values ​​system.