<p>The aim of this study was to advance the understanding of how families affect their children's career through the cultural adaptation and validity of a scale developed to evaluate this kind of influence, a Family Influence Scale (FIS). Overall, 323 Brazilian college students participated in the study, 225 were women (69,7%), ages between 18 and 42 years (<em>M</em>=23.86<em>, DP</em>= 4.77). The results support the validity of FIS, maintaining the structure of four subscales. The Family Informational and Financial Support, Family Expectations and Family Values and Beliefs subscales have similar reliability indexes as previous studies with the same scale. Additional tests of convergent validity were performed in relation to measures of academic self-efficacy and overall life satisfaction. Family informational support, family financial support, and family expectations accounted for 15% of the explained variance of overall life satisfaction. However, the measures of academic self-efficacy were predicted only by family expectations, although in a negative relation. The FIS Brazilian version offers a possibility to advance the understanding about the family influence on the careers within this population. Future research is suggested to explore the FIS results in other Brazilian regions and longitudinal studies as well.</p>