Digital media as a source of transformations in family relations

The article shows the role of digital media in everyday human life and its infl uence on the formation of attitudes and behaviors. Attention was paid to the special role played by the widespread use of modern communication technologies in family relationships. It was emphasized how the relations between parents and children changed as a result of the rapidly growing technique of mobile phones and their latest version in the form of smartphones. Thanks to smartphones, there is possible an universal access to the Internet, which is both asource of information as well as allows to use different instant messengers for communication. This broadly understood access to the digital environment has a very positive meaning in our everyday life, unfortunately it also carries some threats resulting primarily from uncritical use of Internet resources. The article also contains results of the author’s own statistical research on the impact of the Internet on family relationshipscarried out by the author in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine.