“Listening to the Family” is the theme of the Forum that will be held at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on Friday and Saturday, April 4th and 5th. “Specialist on the family and married couples,” said the promoters, “will meet in an exercise of listening to the reality of marriage and the family, with the objective of launching a reflection starting at ‘the base’.” In today’s culture, which “appreciates the autonomy of the family but tends to blur the sense of the bonds and so that often people don’t know how to manage concretely the marital relationship in time,” they add, “the idea loses the strength of a commitment for a lifetime.” While new forms of cohabitation are aspiring to be considered on the same level as marriage, “people feel the value of the bond in daily life, but they also experience the weight of economic factors on the reality of family and the importance of a fiscal policy in favor of the family. The family associations can be a starting point for a change.”