This scientific paper has revealed the problems with institutions of children's socialization (family and children's community) in modern society. These problems are the erosion of emotional bonding between parents and children and the erosion of children community. The reasons for the erosion of emotional bonding between parents and children are determined. They are change of the system of social relations which caused the significant shifts in the system of adults' values, change of quality

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... communication in families. The difficulties of modern family education have been determined. They are "distant" or "phone" education; great informational influence on children; lack of parents' emotional contact with their children; formation of social infantilism; "social orphanage". The paper uses data gathered from theoretic search and empirical investigation (data gathered from 31 families, from children and their parents). The results have shown that there are difficulties in communication and interaction between parents and children. These difficulties are caused by social-economical, moral-judicial, cultural-educational conditions (when parents have to spend much time at work and have no time to communicate with their children), parents' inattentiveness, absence of their willingness and possibilities to communicate with their children, a low level of parents' pedagogical culture, children's overreliance on computer games and virtual world. The problems with childhood and children's socialization in modern world have become popular recently. For instance, F. Aries [3], H. Hengst [14], N. Postman [15], A. Solberg [16] have asserted that in modern life conditions childhood loses its specific feature which distinguish it from adults' world: children games which were various and exclusively for children disappear, and they are replaced by computer games which are not only for children and can influence them badly; now different children things (clothes, food, films, entertainments for children) imitate adult life greatly. There are a lot of reasons for this phenomenon. They are political, social-economical situation in society (many families take much notice of their financial problems but very little notice of their children as parents simply may not have enough time for children and wish to communicate with them after work), low cultural level of people (many of them realize the value and uniqueness of childhood but in real life they seldom create necessary conditions for their children's full and round development, for realizing their ambitions and their self-affirmation), aggressiveness of media environment which influences children more and more and day by day has less cultural and spiritual potential. The erosion of bonding between parents and children and diminishing (and sometimes even destruction) the role of family as a traditional institution of child's socialization are the main reasons for erosion of boundaries between children and adult worlds, loss of originality of childhood. It's well known that parents are of great importance in child's life as communication with parents is the main source of information about the surrounding world for children; and their developments and world perception depend greatly on the patterns of interactions with the world which parents demonstrate them. Besides, as A. Akin and D. Streltsova [2] assert, when a child is born, a peculiar bonding appears between a mother and a child. It is very important for parents to set this bonding as early as possible, because it helps to understand