In order to adapt to the particularity of family disputes and to facilitate the parties to settle disputes, it is necessary to realize the specialization of mediation system and build China's family mediation system. The types of disputes in family mediation include divorce, upbringing, support, adoption, and succession cases. Learning from foreign experience, China should exclude outside the scope of family mediation the cases of stronger non- contentious nature which the parties have no right to dispose of,the cases in which the parties are significantly imbalanced in strength, the cases in which the parties have no intention in mediation, and the cases in which the parties do have full civil capacity. Cases involving domestic violence should be included into the scope of mediation and need special treatment in mediation. Family mediation is limited, mediation cannot solve all family disputes, and not all family disputes should be resolved through mediation.