The article deals with certain aspects of family life with regard to a broader network of its social relations. The age of destruction of family values is revealed in the functional reduction and social isolation of the family, on the one hand, but also in its inclusion into different kinds of social networks, on the other hand. Although these networks were initially researched by social anthropologists, due to the development of the social systems' theory, interest for this phenomenon has started to transcend into the fields of other sciences. Special attention is given to social networks, as a comprehensive field of relations, in the so-called applicative disciplines. Social work, regarded as such a discipline, has found in the social network model, and especially in the method of social work in organizing the community, a significant number of solutions in the process of coping with the ever more complex problems of contemporary persons and their families. Thus, one can expect that the future development of practical-research models concerning work with people will continue in that direction.
