In this text it is briefly analyzed the great tendencies of recent globalization and the process, that are already enduring some time, referring to a weak modernization without modernity in Latin America; this has relation with changes in Latin-American's families structure and functioning, having the economical order as the fundamentals; it can be observed un great number of consequences for the socialization of new generations; on the other side, cultural factors give the base for adaptations e delimitations of idiosyncratic values of each country.
Family; Globalization; Modernity
