<pre>This article investigated how people who participate in Bolsa </pre><pre>Família Program  perceive parental cohesion and hierarchy in</pre><pre>a riverside Amazonian context. This is a case study, which was</pre><pre>attended by three members of a family group. Sociodemographic</pre><pre>Inventory and Family System Test (FAST) were used. The results</pre><pre>showed that: mother has a key role in the family, since she is </pre><pre>directly involved in the adjustment of cohesion and hierarchy </pre><pre>with her children; father represented himself distant from </pre><pre>children; and daughter represented herself intimately linked </pre><pre>to the mother figure, who had similar perceptions of parental </pre><pre>cohesion and hierarchy. It can be concluded that, in this group, </pre><pre>the maternal cohesion seems to be favorable to the fulfillment </pre><pre>of conditionalities and to the development of the beneficiary </pre><pre>child.</pre><p> </p>