Polish, and generally European family life in the twenty-first century is subject to radical change . This takes you from the family understood as a  monogamous, heterosexual couples formal relationship to the socalled. “Post - family family.” There are a  variety of her unstable and flexible compounds even people of the same sex. Influence the formation of this postmodern shape family have not only economic factors, political and legal. The new face of the family is also the result of the influence of the philosophical ideas that transform human thinking, which in turn translates into action. And in this sense, the family has its philosophical context. Among the many philosophical ideas that shape the modern face of the family, highlight the Nietzschean idea of “ revaluation of all values”, feminism and the cult of self-realization. Forms of political, economic and legal, however, conform to the spiritual situation of a thinking man mentioned ideas.