Throughout history, sociocultural changes, improves in life expectancy, among other factors have been changing the way people look at with disabilities. Family and society play a fundamental role in the conception of the disabled member. Develop and describe how families and society considered children with disabilities at different historical moments. Describe how the family with members with disabilities interact with the social and cultural context that surrounds. A literature review was carried out based on keywords in the MEDLINE (PubMed), SCOPUS, and Google Scholar databases. Considering families with a child with a disability at different historical moments was not always the same. The limitations of the context and the socio-historical moment in which both the family and a member with disabilities are located can condition the optimal development of the person.