In the paper, the generation gap conflict phenomenon occurring in families
with adolescent children is given thorough psychological and sociological analysis. Attention
is drawn to psychological and socio-cultural causes of such confl icts, the stages
of their development are determined, constructive and destructive strategies of managing
family confl icts are indicated, and four types of tension arising between parents and their
adolescent children are characterised in families of three close generations: the End of
Century Generation, i. e. the 1989 Generation, the Transformation Period Generation, and
the End of Century Stragglers
