This study，involving parents of urban area and rural families in Yu-hang Tong-lu and Ling-an in Hangzhou，analyzed urban and rural differences in family education by using the method of questionnaire，among which 300 questionnaires were given out and 293 were collected with 267 valid ones，including 112 urban population and 155 rural population.

This study which uses SPSS 13.0 statistics software package for data analysis for the results，focuses on urban and rural differences in family education，especially the differences of eight aspects in work skills education，social education，moral and virtue education，culture and values education，sex education，mental health education，behavior education and educational methods. As the research，the urban and rural area families show great differences in work skills education，moral and virtue education and educational methods while showing slight differences in social skills education，culture and values education，sex education，mental health education and behavior educated. In each dimension of index，there exists some significant differences while some slight differences. All in all，urban area families focus more on moral and virtue education while they pay less attention to sex education.

This study mainly aimed at the questionnaire result analysis of family education differences between urban and rural areas to find out the reasons of the existence of differences and to put forward reasonable suggestions.