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The text focuses on the subject of family and values. It aims to show where in the hierarchy of values of the studied youth, second class of high school is a family. The text contains a theoretical description of the family and its transformations, as well as an empirical part concerning research on family values in the opinions of secondary school students. In recent years, it has been observed that the family is losing value because the values related to the good of the individual become more important. This was also confirmed in the conducted studies, because the family was located by the youth on the distant 7th position in the group of 10 values.