a survey on demographic characteristics of referrals to medical genetic of isfahan and it’s relation to family marriage in 2009

background: marriage causes family and from a point of view it is a social symbol   which is reflection of whole society. one of the forms of marriage is family marriage. these kind of marriage are important in human heredity (heritage), according to social, cultural and economic conditions, this pattern of marriage is different between the countries and even inside a specific country. as family marriage is still found as a permanent pattern of marriage in iran and may continue based on different causes in future, this study is therefore aimed at finding population causes affects family marriage , presenting functional methods to decrease risks of familiar marriages in isfahan. methods: in this study, research method was based on secondary analyzing the current data in medical genetic center of isfahan . the sample size was consisted of all pairs reffered to medical genetic center in isfahan. all data was gathered using medical files in first 4 months of year 2009. data was analyzed using statistical tests and spss -18 software in significant level of α<0/05. findings: 50.4% of women referrals with family marriage were between 15-20. the highest percent (86.8%) of the women with education under diploma, married with relatives. 39% of homewives and 50.4% of student women were married with relatives. it is notable that 83.5% of women referrals whom their parents had family marriages, also got married with relatives. conclusion: this study revealed a significant relationship between age of women marriage and their education, also between their occupation and relative marriage, so that women with lower ranges of age had the most family marriages. additionally, with increasing women , s education, family marriages reduced and with them having a job, most of their marriages were not with relatives.