How have family policies been configured in democratic Brazil? Have different federal governments promoted various types of family policies? Are they characterized by being more familistic (explicitly or implicitly) or are they defamilizing at some level? This chapter seeks to outline the configuration of family policies in Brazil since the Federal Constitution of 1988 by analyzing the types of family policies that prevailed in each federal administration, mapping the loci, priorities, and nature of these policies. The hypothesis is that different political projects (governments) emphasize different forms of family policies; however, they all reinforce the role of the family as a pillar in the provision of social protection. The authors analyzed documents published in the Diário Oficial da União (Brazilian official government newspaper), observing the semantic meanings of the codes from the corpus and their co-occurrences. The results show that, historically, policies concerning rural families have a strong presence in most governments, but that the Lula administration and its counterparts have introduced a different perspective. The findings also suggest that there has been a shift from implicit to explicit familialism, and that defamilizing policies only affect part of the population, those formally bound to the workforce.