Abstract
The question of the future of families emerges as a topic especially during times of rapid social change and uncertainty. Typically, the trends of the future are anticipated on the basis of existing expert knowledge. However, the interest of this paper will be in ordinary people, especially young adults’ knowledge and ways of envisioning the future from their position in life. The approach is based on an interpretative, fictive and narrative perspective to the future, using the role-play method with students. As a result, three different story types of the futures of families are found: families can strengthen, families can weaken or a catastrophe threatens families and puts them in danger of being destroyed. In all of these future stories the young adults explain the changes in families in terms of economy, values and religions, family policy and ecological factors. The results add to knowledge of how culture and values reshape family change.
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