In the last two decades, the modern family has been going through significant changes in several aspects of its configuration
and structure, requiring a complex and multidisciplinary perspective essential to its understanding. The children
subsystem is not immune to these changes, and the parent-child relationship must be reformulated in the light of these wider
transformations. Today the modern family, therefore, can appear to be deeply different from the traditional one in terms of
structure and roles.
This paper is a reflection on some of the alternatives to the traditional family forms in order to highlight critical and resilience
factors
