What are we experiencing today – a family crisis, or are we on the path of an eternal family? This book is dedicated to the family, its place in human life and society, what it was like in the past and what we want it to be in the future. Can a modern family help a person withstand the pressure of society or is the family itself going through a severe crisis? The most famous family researcher Lydia Berngardovna Schneider reveals to us the family in different “faces”, showing its psychological changes, growth and the meaning that family plays in a person’s life today; illuminates the path that the family has taken in human society from its very origins to the present state. In the book you will find answers to the questions: – How does the formation of a married couple occur in modern society and how does it differ from the past? – What is the essence of the wedding ceremony and what is it role in family history?– What is the role of love and sexuality in marriage?– Why are such different unions and relationships called family today?– How have the relationships between fathers and children changed and how relevant is this problem today?– Family of the 21st century: will the kaleidoscope of changes stop? Edition addressed to psychologists, students and teachers of psychological faculties, teachers, philosophers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and everyone interested in issues of marriage and family.