Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational sociology, this study conceptualizes the family as a relatively autonomous field shaped by shared assumptions (doxa) and a belief in the stakes of familial life (illusio). By examining the symbolic functions of the family and the interests of actors who construct family discourse, the research explores how both private and public understandings of the family form a broader “family-dicy”—a term adapted from Bourdieu’s notion of sociodicy to describe the symbolic work that legitimizes existing family structures. Using this theoretical lens, the study distinguishes between imagined, idealized, and lived family, showing how these dimensions emerge differently across generations and genders. Findings indicate that while older generations display coherence between imagined and idealized family narratives, younger women increasingly question familial doxa, leading to a weakening of illusio and the emergence of generational tensions. This framework highlights how symbolic meanings, everyday practices, and intergenerational interpretations of family contribute to the reproduction—and contestation—of the social order.