Considering the increasing representation of research on the issue of marital and family relations, and all the elements that make up the same, the chosen topic is research on modern marriage-family in relation to the traditional understanding of marriage-family. Namely, with the advent of the modern era, it can be seen that there have been several changes regarding the understanding of marriage, rights, and the overall role of the family in the social system. The new order of values brought positive factors along with which negative ones were created. Also, the contemporary way of life of the 21st century strongly points to the present day, which is characterized by daily stress, hustle and bustle, lack of relaxation, relaxation and many other factors that affect the lack of human spontaneity and creativity. In order to get to the point where you can have a sufficient amount of spontaneity and creativity, psychodrama and sociodrama as therapeutic methods help through certain sessions through which you can release said spontaneity and creativity and thus independently come to conclusions about a certain issue within a social group. Considering the ways of solving a certain social issue through the aforementioned methods, through this thesis, marriage is presented through traditional and contemporary perspectives, and the conceptualization of marriage and family as an institution in order to make a comparison between the results obtained within the research, and the theses of the relevant authors. Then, factors were highlighted as assumptions that influence the structure of the family, and the aforementioned was investigated through sociodrama sessions, which were made up of role-playing by participants belonging to different generational groups. Tehnology, media and striving towards liberalization are factors which have the most influence on the structure of the family, which once represented the core of society, but in the modern world is losing or has lost the stated role, which is also the hypothesis of the thesis.