<p>Family well-being is an important source of contribution to positive development in various fields and specifically to child well-being. This study carried out with Colombian families presents the results from three different cities: Bogotá, Santa Marta and Cali-Palmira, and three socioeconomic levels on the variables family well-being and child well-being. The data come from a broader research program, which seeks to characterize some family, parental, individual and contextual variables of the families in Colombia. Levels of family and child well-being with a sample of 422 families (Bogotá N = 196, Santa Marta N = 81 and Cali-Palmira N = 145) were evaluated through the Well-being Index of the Family Members (McCubbin &amp; Patterson, 1982) and the Child Well-being Inventory (Author &amp; Carrillo, 2014). The results showed differential effects of contextual variables (geographical and socioeconomic) in the members of the families. In some cases, significant differences associated with these contextual variables were found. There were also significant associations between the level of family well-being and the level of child well-being (<em>Tau B</em> = 0.21 **). The findings contribute as an-input to continue from an ecological and systemic perspective to deepen on the understanding of family dynamics in Colombian and Latin American contexts.</p>