The family plays an important role in the positive development of the child's mind, behavior and overall development. Everyone wants a stable environment both at home and outside. Stability in life does not always last due to stress, conflicts or other problems that sometimes cannot be avoided. Conflict occurs with or without us realizing it. It can happen in our daily lives, from the smallest to the largest problems, whether with our family, friends, strangers, colleagues or anyone we meet. Conflict is a struggle over values ​​and claims to scarce status, power, and resources in which the opponents' goals are to neutralize, injure, or eliminate rivals ( Coser, 1967 ). There are always advantages and disadvantages when conflict occurs, it can strengthen or even weaken a particular situation. Family conflicts are just like other conflicts that happen around us. It can affect us in many ways as an individual. Numerous previous studies have revealed that children and adolescents have shown a high potential for externalizing behavioral problems, particularly when they have become witnesses or victims of conflicts in their family environment (Hornor, 2005). The purpose of this research is to investigate whether family conflict affects the child's social development. The theory that can relate to this research proposal is Albert Bandura's social learning theory, 1977. Bandura explained that people learn new things and behaviors by observing others, also known as observational learning, in which children learn and observe people's behaviors by imitating the act afterwards. For example, in the famous "Bobo doll" studies, an adult acted violently towards the Bobo doll and immediately after seeing it, the child did the same thing, just like the child... middle of paper... . ...pdfFomby, P. and Osborne, C. (2008). The relative effects of family instability and mother/partner conflict on children's externalizing behavior. Retrieved from http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP08-07-FF.pdfPeterson, L., & Zill, N. (1986). Marital breakdown, parent-child relationships, and behavioral problems in children. 48(02), 295-307. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/352397?uid=3738672&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698773131477Piers, V., Harris, B., & Herzberg, S. (2012). Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, Second Edition (Piers-Harris 2). Retrieved from http://portal.wpspublish.com/portal/page?_pageid=53,112628&_dad=schema=PORTALTsai, Y. (2008). Work-family conflict, positive spillovers, and emotions among Asian American working mothers. Retrieved from http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60855/1/athy_1.pdf