The purpose of this study is to analyze and refl ect upon the ideology of social studies textbooks at the elementary school level. Striving to arrive at a desirable conclusion, we will make relevant suggestions as to publisher and teacher development to address the needs of multicultural family structure. In order to reach the purpose, content analysis method has been adopted and actual elementary school social studies curriculum has been analyzed and refl ected upon. The conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows:1.Although positive functioning of the family unit is emphasized, the types of families addressed are not well diversifi ed.2.mmigrant families are discussed in social studies textbooks, but the multicultural aspects are not suffi ciently expanded upon.3.Stereotyping of gender role has not been made blatantly obvious but still seems to be subtly embedded in the curriculum.4.Issues of family confl ict have been addressed in the curriculum.5.Representation of ideal family structure has been placed in the curriculum to assist students in formulating a healthy family in the future.According to the above fi ndings, several suggestions have been proposed:1.Teachers must frequently refl ect upon and modify teachings of inappropriate family ideologies.2.Publishers of school textbooks are encouraged to expand their knowledge to be more multicultural aware in order to expand on family concepts across the curriculum.3.The concerns of the disadvantaged family must be addressed in the curriculum.4.The design of such a multicultural aware curriculum must address the needs of the teachers and give them suffi cient models to adopt.5. The textbook study must be transformed into the critical analysis of curriculum to disclose the power mechanism hidden into the knowledge.