Family is the base of every nation, historical and everyday life of society. Lithuanian family obtains features typical for all developed countries. Marriages are delayed for later time, more pairs are in common – law marriage, more children are born in such families and birthrate decreases. The doubt about strength of marriage appears with increasing of number of common – law marriage. Though children living in town argue for marriage (39,25%) the negative opinion about marriage increases. Negative opinion about marriage has the best part of pupils living in the city (40%). Though mixed opinion of marriage, family as wealth is the most important and significant, according pupils’ opinion. It is very important to understand importance of family and its functions before marriage. According pupils’ opinion the main function of family is to grow children. Such answer had 43% of pupils living in the city and 35,48% living in town. Very important functions are birth of children and recreation as well. Many problems such as quarrel, divorces or even violence appear in families because of devaluation of spiritual wealth and misunderstanding of familial functions. According results of investigation pupils have negative opinion of divorces (in city - 60%, in town – 60,75%). Pupils almost do not sustain violence in the family (in city - 1%, in town - 4%), but this data are not reliable, as children do not like to speak up about problems in the family. It is very important to prepare... [to full text]