The article discusses the trends in the field of domestic spiritual and moral family pedagogy, which are based on one or another system of values that should be learned by the child in the process of education. The relevance of the topic is due to the decline of family authority in modern society and the need to find the best ways to restore it. The aim of the work is to study trends and search for perspectives in the field of family education. The study of man as the main subject of the educational process is impossible without a holistic understanding of his nature and essence, which leads to anthropological and axiological approach. It is shown that, acting as the regulatory components of a certain culture, values affirm the idea of ideals and set goals, tasks and principles of family education, serve as a kind of coordinate grid, a code of behavior rules and interpersonal relations in the family. The author identifies three main areas in the field of family education: traditional, humanistic, and liberal-humanistic, corresponding to three eras in national history and gives a brief description of each of them and, on the basis of comparative analysis, comes to the conclusion that it is advisable to strengthen the traditional paradigm in family pedagogy.