The article shows the whole range of issues of family and marriage and intimate discovered by the feminism and gender paradigm. There was a thesis that the development of feminism as science changes the research on families, intimate unions - emerge in the world and in Poland feminist family studies. The characterizing features for the modern family are, therefore, its instability, transformation, change, diversity of its forms that force the actors to family life creative efforts to tackle the social and economic changes, crashing the old structures and new models carrying families.