Abstract: Proverbs and sayings reflect different peoples’ values and help to reconstruct the linguistic view of the world of a particular language. The study analyses how top level “nuclear family” and its terminal/slot ‘parents and children’ with sub-slots ‘father and mother’, ‘children, son, daughter’, ‘brothers and sisters’, ‘grandchildren and grandparents’, ‘stepmother’ are represented in the American paroemilogical fund. With the help of continuous sampling method 334 paroemiae were selected. The verification of the research was carried out on the basis of 15,000 proverbs and sayings. Sub-slots ‘child/children’ (65 units), ‘parents: father, mother’ (43 units), ‘sister’ (13 units), ‘brother’ (11 units) are domineering. 1-2 units belong to the sub-slots ‘grandchildren and grandparents’, ‘stepmother’.