Młode pokolenie a świat wartości życia rodzinnego

The paper discusses the problem of consciousness patterns of family life. Accepting the assumption on the specific role of family in the hierarchy of values of the Polish society as the starting point, the author analyses more detailed values considered by peoples to be important in the sphere of family life. Closer penetration into the world of values of family life allow to draw some conclusions concerning the social beliefs on basic family ties and the character of needs and expectencies related to a family. Thereby, it enables better understanding of the meaning related to the whole sphere of the family life. The paper answers also the question concerning values which are searched in the family life by the younger and the older generation, respectively. The differences seem to be less important then those which result from the class-stratum status of an individual. The paper discusses in details two clearly distinguished family life pattern: of workers and intelligents.