Since the introduction of modernity stimuli, the traditional Tunisian domestic group,1 characterized by the patriarchal model, has been submitted to tensions which tend to make it change. On the basis of six surveys carried out in Tunisia between 1960 and 1966 using interviews and questionnaires on samples of young people, the author, studying, above all, the attitudes and representations, seeks to show that a series of changes is generally accompanied by a series of processes which tend to minimize the former and to create unexpected compromises that only observation can discover.