Every man has a specific personality determined by various factors, including genetic predispositions, environment, education and individual activity. It is because of these elements that one has certain goals to achieve in life and that one performs social roles in a specific way. The importance of the family that one is born to, the creators of the processes of education and socialisation, i.e. parents, teachers, pedagogues, guardians, the environment one spends time in, the schools one attends, the peer groups on identifies with, one's role models is not to be underestimated. Taking into account the multitude of factors determining the education of a child in a numerous family the environmental determinants (including age, education, professional activity of parents or the lack thereof, residence of the numerous family, financial situation, number of children) in this system of multiple categories constituting the elements characterising the form of contemporary family of three or more children should be emphasized.