This work presents an exploratory study made with the parents of high school students with the aim of identifying and analyzing, from a boarding psychosocial, their opinions and attitudes towards the teaching and learning of Physics and their common knowledge about some physical phenomena. The work was carried out with a sample of parents who participated voluntarily. First, they were asked to complete a questionnaire with information about some basic and social-cultural variables (sex, age, educational level, occupation); then, their opinions about Physics, its teaching and learning, were inquired; finally, they made a test for the detection of conceptual structures about movement. From the results obtained, we have analyzed the influence that these representations of the family context would have in the learning of Physics.