The word 'family' is defined as a unit of two or more people related by blood or marriage. They live and spend time together, raise their children. Procreation is one of the functions of the family. Some couples prefer to have children and unfortunately others do not, in some cases due to health problems. Countries differ in their laws and regulations regarding who and at what age can marry. Western societies try to have a "nuclear" family consisting of parents and adoptive or biological children, but the most common form of family is the "extended" family, which can include parents, their children and even uncles, nieces and nephews. , cousins ​​and grandparents. People create families for their security and love. If you live in an extended family, there is always someone who can help you. The form of the family changes as society changes. And the well-being of the family depends on the well-being of the country. Couples have children to have their support as they get older. Having a child is amazing, bringing a little life into the world. Nowadays people prefer to have only one child in their family. This is not because of their reluctance to have more children, but because of some factors that influence their decision making. Firstly, some people do not have enough money to provide enough food for family members, others cannot have more than one child due to government policy (China for example) and secondly, because people's material values they are more important than having a family. Having a child is a big responsibility. You need to earn enough money for yourself and your child. Not only to buy food or clothes, but also to give your child the opportunity to attend dance lessons such as or to study...... middle of paper ......upples consider themselves too young for they have a child, their career is taking off. They want to earn a lot of money to buy an expensive car or a big house. These people focus more on their work, their career, themselves, they think life is better without children. They think that if they have children they will have to give up their career and focus more on their family. An important role plays the fact into which family the husband and wife were born. Whether it is an extended or nuclear family, it greatly affects the future of the children's family. If a person were born into an extended family they would try to have the same size as the family and the same goes for the nuclear family. Nowadays people have different values ​​than they did about 10 years ago. People of older generations did not even think about divorce, but now for modern societies this is just a simple thing.