Each person defines them self in a different way and this process of identification is specific for adolescence. To define our identity is important to explore and to test different alternatives. Four types of identity status have been described, based on the amount of exploration and commitment that the adolescent is experiencing or has experienced: identity diffusion (the adolescent has made no commitment regarding a specific developmental task and may or may not have explored different developmental alternatives); foreclosure (the adolescent has made a commitment without exploration); moratorium (the adolescent is in state of active exploration and has made no commitment) and identity achievement (the adolescent has finished a period of active exploration and made a commitment). The family’s characteristics have an important role in the process of identity formation. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence that the family type (with two parents, divorced family, with parents who work abroad) and characteristics (cohesion and adaptability) have on the adolescent’s identity. The results of the study revealed the importance of the family, like a complete system, for the good development of the adolescent. The cohesion of the girls’ family is higher than the cohesion of the boys’ family. For the boys, the adaptability is higher for the families with one parent who works abroad than the divorced families. Also the adaptability of the intact families or families with one parent who work abroad is higher than the adaptability of the divorced families for the boys. The identity diffusion and foreclosure’s scores of the adolescents with one parent who works abroad are higher than the scores of adolescents with two-parent families. Also the adolescents who have families with low cohesion have higher scores at the identity diffusion and moratorium than the adolescents with high cohesion.