THE NATURE OF FAMILY CONFLICT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF SYNERGETICS

The article considers conflict-habituated family behavior and shows that often it is due to unequal exchange of basic family values determined by traditional gender roles in the family. At that, a conflictual family is a complex non-equilibrium system characterized by the presence of permanent critical conditions that are solved through bifurcations leading to non-linear development of the system and radical scenarios of the evolution of family relations. In the presence of rather strong external adverse effects an unstable family may experience resonant phenomena that lead to deviant behavior of its members outside the family.