Bakiera, Lucyna2013-03-062013-03-062006Roczniki Socjologii Rodziny, 2006, tom 17, s. 101-115.0867-2059http://hdl.handle.net/10593/4969The main target of this paper is to present transformation of the family and to stress that family for all the time is of great importance to the individual human development. Alternative scenarios of married and family life, as cohabitation, simple life, monoparental family, homosexual unions and communes, are more and more attractive for various groups of people. The intensity of those changes depends on many social and cultural factors. Against the background of social changes people still need the family. The most important experiences people achieve in the family, so family is called the primary context of human development. The main attention in the article is paid to the problems of playing parental roles as an activity which is conducive to human development. Variety of changes in adolescence and their peculiar cause that relationship between parents and adolescents is problematical, so parents should be very sensitive and candid to children's problems. They must be flexible as tutors. Activity in the middle- age, which contains parents' different behaviour, like interestis in of adolescent children, helping them in their maturation and permission to their growing autonomy bring about a sense of being creative and protect people in this stage of life from the selfish concentration on their own problems. So children could be a chance for parent's development, chance of satisfying the needs of giving and creating in relation with the younger generations, needs characteristic for this developmental stage.plArtykuł