This article examines value differences between groups. The focus is on differences in a set of traditional family values - attitudes to working mothers, careers for women, gender roles, marriage, cohabitation, ex nuptial births, single parents, childlessness, divorce, sex outside of marriage and homosexuality. The findings in this article come from the 1989 - 90 and the 1993 National Social Science Survey and the 1995 Australian Family Values Survey. Together these three surveys provide a current picture of views held by adult Australians on a wide range of family values. The majority of people held many traditional family values. A large majority of respondents stressed that caring for young children should take priority over work for mothers, and the majority supported the traditional breadwinner role for men and family role for women.