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In this paper there are presented several elements of strengthening the educational role of the family, whitch concerns: social and religious socialization, as a basic function of the family; forms of education for sobriety in the family; institutions and social groups that support education to sobriety; problem of education to sobriety in a dysfunctional family. The education to sobriety can not be isolated from the whole process of social and religious education. Formation the virtue of sobriety, backed by a radical testimony of the parents, should penetrate all direct and indirect influences of education.