ABSTRACT
The confusion with regard to the social status of the family and the ambiguities of its political status have only become more pronounced in the wake of economic mutations: the crisis in, or the 'eroding' of, the labour force. The disappearance of the models discussed is the sign of an absence of a political project. It is undoubtedly within the framework of a political project that the respective places of the citizen and the family, the role of the family in the transmission and the construction of the social and political link, could be discussed. The variations in the organization of the DG V of the European Commission as far as the family is concerned on the one hand, 'equal opportunities' on the other, seems to follow the same logic or rather the same ambivalence at the European level.
