Relevance of research undertaken in the article, is dictated by the characteristics of philosophical reflection on the empirical regularities of changes in the social status of the family. Our ideal representations about a family differ from family practice in modern Russia that speaks about slow character of transformation of informal restrictions in structure of institutional transformations. All the social issues of the day invariably affect the family, are refracted by its moral orientations, which today can be described as contradictory and complex. Therefore, the changes that have occurred in the area of family relations, provoked a lot of debate about the future of the family as a social institution, which plays an important role in the reproduction of the population, the socialization of individuals, their moral and physical well-being and life fulfillment. Relevance of research undertaken in this paper is dictated by the peculiarities of philosophical reflection on the empirical regularities of changes in the social status of the family.