In the 1970´s and 80´s, youth in the so-called western countries used to follow a life attitude that could be described as heroically anti-traditionalistic. Yet, since the 1990´s in the perspective of the young generation, this anti-traditionalistic pattern is more and more being disenchanted itself. As it seems, the heroic anti-traditionalism meanwhile has lost its identity-shaping and euphorizing power. Compared to the preceding generations, today’s youth generate quite different motives for their background convictions. Young people articulate their sense for critical life burdens no longer in a semantic of liberation from “traditional” restrictions but rather in responding to an overall experience of life world stabilities and continuities being destructured. Thus being novel, no longer is the striking promise it used to be in times of the anti-traditionalistic youth movements. This also results, at least very frequently, in an amazing détente in the relationship between kids and their parents today. Thomas Ziehe