Family as the answer to demands of individualisation: ambivalences and contradictions

To evaluate the topics related to the so-called "emancipation" of youth, we would like to present a comparison between the situation and the experiences of parents, the evolution that has been taking place and the strategies, views and experiences of young people. What kind of meanings had familiar relations in "the past" ?: to have a more or less stable model, that regulated behaviour, training and learning, the training goals and the training steps until retirement. Behaviour models and life-meaning models, existing types of unions between primary groups, closed ideological bonds (political parties, the Church),transition towards more stable forms of living (marriage), limited mobility (little change in qualifications or local mobility). "Today" dependencies are changing and differentiating as a consequence of insecurity and uncertainty about the future, the forms of living and the behaviours. To secure their existence, create new ways of living together or adapt to new standards, family members remain together much more time (family as a hotel, as a holder), because of demands of individualisation, as a way to absorb risks and/or hide from them. We are trying to make a contribution to the analysis of the ambivalences in which parents live. Parents that between 1970 and 1989 were the same age that young people are now, that is, between 20 and 25 years old.