Parents in the dimension of family life

The article is an attempt to review parental roles and to direct attention towards elementary issues relating to the fulfillment of these roles in family life. The significance of parental roles, the tasks of parenthood, as well as parents’ influence on children are addressed in the article. Parental roles, which establish the basic family subsystem, are part of the fundamental dimensions of the functioning of an adult. As a lifelong and multifaceted task, they constitute a component of an adult’s development, a wellspring of contentment and a source of joy in life. The article is demonstrative in nature, therefore, a methodological approach applied in it is the critical analysis of subject literature. The reflection resulting from the analyses relates to the statement that the system of the roles of a mother and a father, as well as the quality of their fulfillment have a decisive influence on the level of functioning of a family, primarily determining socialization and education which take place within it