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The crisis, a word that is inflicted today through all cases, affects families in Poland as well. Against a background of a family it is often spoken about economic crisis. Symptoms of the crisis can be seen in relationships created within the family. What can often be found on the list of symptoms are the crisis of fatherhood, weakening of bonds, the loss of authority and educational problems in many families. Some see signs of the crisis in the loss of multigenerational family, in the change of relations between parents and children and in other cultural changes that the family is inevitably subjected to. From a sociological perspective the article tries to show the number of divorces and birthrate as phenomena which indicate the crisis affecting Polish families. The scale of the observed phenomena can be a clear sign speaking about changes.