The author believes that the right to the safeguard of family life is a human right, a fundamental right, even if it is not the subject of a specific legislation in Québec private law. The author demonstrates its existence in two stages. Following an axiological approach, the author confronts the right to the safeguard of family life with the range of values that bind society as such as what can be perceived in the international, constitutional and quasi-constitutional order to verify that this order would be incomplete without the recognition of such a right. In an axiomatic approach, the author confronts the right to the safeguard of family life with the characteristics of other human rights, as protected in Québec’s legal traditions, including the right to respect for private life, to infer that it is indeed a human right and a fundamental right.