Trans-generational violence in families

The article provides the data from the representative survey conducted in June 2015 in the Republic of Karelia (North of the Russian Federation) and focuses on the transition from generation to generation of violent models of relationships between parents and of their behavior towards children. There are considered various types of conflicts and their frequency in the older and younger generations, main forms of violence among spouses, adult children’s assessment of the relationship models of their parents and of their own, kinds of punishment of children and their attitude to punishments, parents’ cruelty, public humiliation of children, lack of communication skills in the relationships between parents and children.