Summary: Archetypically the foundations of family life Dagestanis are, under certain conditions, a source of moral education. The study showed that among the varieties of small family, the most widespread of the peoples of Dagestan had a nuclear family, i.e. a family consisting of married couples with children, ie dvuhyakornaya, complete, not complicated kinship individual family.
Key words: family life, morality, upbringing, family.