describe the conflicts faced by odysseus' family

That would take a lot of space to cover all of them. Certainly, the pestering suitors after Odysseus's wife was a problem. Odysseus' son, Telemachus, undergoes a miniature odyssey of his own. A callow 20-year-old afraid to challenge the suitors at the start of the poem, by the end, thanks in part to Athena's grooming, he is an assured, mature young man ready to take on the suitors.