摘要：The Brazilian imaginary contemporary, to the represent the family, show his level of conflict. Expressions like "the family is the only salvation of the dangerous of the world" or "the family is the source of all the woes current", witness this conflict. Together of the conflict to representation, there is, undeniable, a fact: the contemporary family suffer big transformations, that affect the power of relationship between husband and wife, the role of the mother and father, the struggle for survival, sexuality, affection, the existence of the news machines to produced the desire, the born of the various types of a family, the action of parenting etc. with the object of exposing this features and reflect the changes, this paper, to repent a demographic reading of the family, intent to see his historic density according to changes on the space. At the end shows that the complexity of the current family - and their conflicts - poses new challenges to research the subject.
