title: [Family: a Challenge for the Future of our Earth].
abstract: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the family as the basic cell of society, highlighting its importance, the need to protect it, to promote it as a natural and fundamental group unit of society. To reflect on the effects that the actual culture is in the family is important from the situation as it is now presented, then move to raise the changes seen necessary to ensure their own future and that of their habitat that is Earth. To accomplish this first task some study results World Family Map 2015 is glossed. Later reflections on the binomial environmental ecology and human ecology, where the importance of adequate from anthropological concepts to succeed in each of these fields. The current decline of culture directly affects the family by undermining one of its main bases, human love, which is a real threat. They are proposed some challenges for the family and mentioned strategies to address them. As outlined that conclusion not to follow the activity of endangering the human species and destroy the planet, it is necessary to change the current social structure and culture, beginning with the family; must be helped to become aware of their problems and limitations, so that later you can give truly human solutions to these problems, almost always produced by the same man.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de La Sabana Cra. 43E # 7D-14 Barrio Astorga Zona Postal: 050022102, Medellín - Antioquia. Colombia, Tel: 57 4 266 1866, gilberto.gamboa@unisabana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Gilberto A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Gamboa-Bernal
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003469:Culture; D017753:Ecosystem; D004782:Environmental Health; D005190:Family; D005544:Forecasting; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D012940:Social Problems