Values are the basis of a life in a family, and a child observes his parents from an early age and thus adopts values. Therefore, it is extremely important that the child has a positive example that will guide him. The values of today's society are changing, as well as the understanding of the values themselves. Parents will not agree equally on the fundamental values and the way of realizing them in the upbringing, but they should inspire each other and develop a way of acting together, while the motives for which they act will reveal to them whether something agrees with the general picture of values. The aim of the research of this diploma thesis was to examine and determine the value orientations and value priorities of mothers and fathers in the Republic of Croatia, in order to point out the (non) existence of differences in the value orientations of mothers and fathers according to the ten motivational types of values that derive from the Schwartz's theory of universal content and structure of values. The results show that the value priorities of both mothers and fathers are benevolence, self-direction and security, while their two lowest ranked values are power and hedonism. The results of t-tests show that mothers attach more importance to the motivational value type benevolence than fathers, while fathers attach more importance to the motivational value types achievement, stimulation, hedonism and power, although power and hedonism are the lowest ranked values for both mothers and fathers.