Major Issues and Determinants for Parent-adolescent Conflict: Issues and Determinants of Parent-adolescent Conflict: the Case of Adolescents in Southern Ethiopia (Wolayita Sodo)

Adolescence is a stage of Human Development in which an individual will start to have conflict with parents. Though this is normal developmental process, most parents consider that their adolescent son/daughter has begun to be disobedient. There are certain issues that bring parents and their adolescent sons and daughters to confrontation such as demand for autonomy, money, schooling, household chores, sex, religion and others. However, Conflict between parents and adolescents shows variation across sex, and adolescent sub-stages. Parent- adolescent conflict is a one time issue that declines as adolescents progress in age.