Family roles are the responsibilities, tasks or activities a family member is linked to that help the family to exists, for example, the role of mothers in the family involves nurturing children, raising children, and protecting them. These roles as any other role are not fix but evolve over time, for example, when you are a child there are few responsibilities or tasks and your role is passive, but once you grow and there are smaller siblings or you have own children this changes as you have responsibilities and your role is active; also, once children leave home the role changes once more. Thus, it is false you are born with all your family roles because family roles are not fixed but they change over time as new roles emerge.
