Subjects from three generations of Chinese-Canadian families completed questionnaires to assess their concept of family. A total of 12 males and 12 females from the three age groups participated. Age groups were composed of 9- through 13-year-olds, 30- through 50-year-olds, and 65-year-olds and older. Tasks included listing family members, drawing a diagram of the participant's own family, making a typical family from a set of figures, responding to a check-list definition of family, and providing demographic information. Compared to family concepts of children and adults, the elderly adults' concepts appeared to be relatively closer to the traditional Chinese emphasis on an extended family system. For example, elders included more extended members in their own family and in their representations of a typical family. Elders also included more male children in their typical family. (RH)