As a perceptual lifeworld, family, which integrates personality, emotion, labor and its creation, can to a large extent serve as a spiritual harbor for people. It unfolds bodybased natural connections among people and the real need and care for specific individuals. The practice in the domain of family, when compared with secondary social groups, manifests more strongly the immediacy of exchange, the primacy of body and the individuality of subjects. The perceptual lifeworld defined by these three attributes deserves more perceptual analyses apart from previous rational reflections. Therefore, family research needs to develop more appropriate methods in the light of the nature of family as a perceptual lifeworld.