The study analyses of the “degree of association” between the satisfaction expressed by the parental figures and the family structure they belong to: Family nuclear, single-parent, binuclear and complex families. In the transversal investigation, 631 mothers and fathers from the middle and upper-middle socio-cultural class took part. The identification of the family structures was undertaken by means of a Family Structure Questionnaire, an adaptation of the Single-parent Family Questionnaire (Rodríguez and Luengo, 2000) and the evaluation of family satisfaction with the AFSE (Barraca and López, 1999). The study shows and that the non-traditional family models are less problematic than that explained by Parsonian structural functionalism.

The study analyses of the “degree of association” between the satisfaction expressed by the parental figures and the family structure they belong to: Family nuclear, single-parent, binuclear and complex families. In the transversal investigation, 631 mothers and fathers from the middle and upper-middle socio-cultural class took part. The identification of the family structures was undertaken by means of a Family Structure Questionnaire, an adaptation of the Single-parent Family Questionnaire (Rodríguez and Luengo, 2000) and the evaluation of family satisfaction with the AFSE (Barraca and López, 1999). The study shows and that the non-traditional family models are less problematic than that explained by Parsonian structural functionalism.