Since 1990s the bloom of industrialization and urbanization brings about the changes in social and economic issues of Vietnam, especially in rural areas. Along with those changes, how rural family has changed? By surveying 48 families outside urbanization area and 54 families within urbanization area, the research found that urbanization process has not exerted impact on the traditional structure of the families in both areasd. However, the income generation activities of family have changed towards dependence on the family member and the family consumption activities have shifted from self-sufficience to market dependence. Moreover, ubanization seems to make family educational function blurry due to more concentration efforts on economic function.