The article deals with the concept of family life in juvenile offenders. Juvenile delinquency often has roots in family problems. Teenage criminals are known to express ambivalent ideas about family relationships. In this research, they described Mother as emotionally distant, undemanding, soft-hearted, uncooperative, lacking control, and inconsistent in her educational influence. Father was described as stern, demanding, even cruel, emotionally distant, and unaccepting. The research proved the ambivalent character of family concept in teenage criminals. They had more positive ideas about their own future family than about their life with parents. Most juvenile delinquents were eager to have their own family in the future. However, they hardly ever described themselves as a spouse or a parent. Their ideas about family relationships were blurred; they had a very poor understanding of family roles and tended to oppose their parental family to the family they imagined for themselves.