| Crdts. Teor. | 4 | The family is the primary context where the basics of human experience are fixed, where human beings are born and made, where they develop their personality, acquire basic patterns to communicate and interact with others, where they learn the culture, assimilate the most elementary coexistence values and rules, where they start to have contact with their environment, they take on basic criteria such as happiness, or suffer the consequences of emotional deprivation, and even, as it happens, where pathologies are produced. The rapid changes that occur in our current society could not leave out an institution like the family. In fact, there are new and alternative family types and family's life cycles are changing, thus modifying the roles of family members: children, grandparents... All these changes, which put the current family in a weak or precarious position when facing difficult crisis or situations in its daily life, also require us to reconsider its functions and roles. |