Bülent KARA

Family; Mother, father, and their children. The bond and structure between the family and the family members who change with time are different from the culture. Family institutions, like individuals, are affected by environmental, biological, psychological and social processes. When women entered the working life, serious changes occurred in the family structure. The time for working with children and housework has been reduced in relation to the decrease in the amount of wages the working woman has spent at home. As a result, some of the jobs that are seen as women's tasks in our society are also involved in men. The aim of the study is to define the factors affecting the change and transformation of family structure in Turkey. The qualitative research methods used in the study were the interviews with the documents. There source books, articles and internet data related to the research were examined and the data obtained were systematically integrated. In the study the main dynamics affecting the change and transformation of the Turkish family structure have been reached and explained as the result of the woman entering the working life, demographic change, marriage and divorce, change of the family meaning to the individual, technology and consumption culture, social change, family politics and migration.

Keywords: Family, transformation, conflict theory, technology, migration, population