In the article, the family is considered as the most important part of social life. The role of the family in spiritual and moral significance for a person and society is analyzed. The subject of study is the ways of the functioning of the family in terms of the spiritual and moral implementation of family relations in the conditions of modern reality. The problem is considered through the prism of spirituality, which plays the role of the initial basis in the methodological functions of the study of man and society.