Old thinks him as gold, young’s calls the old as fools. The fight between the old and the young is not new and has been bound in the culture of every nation of the world.

Old people always have fixed beliefs, practices, customs, and they think every aspect of their belief is the best whereas young’s think that the customs, beliefs, practices by the olds are useless and backdated, so they must be replaced by the new rules, ideologies, dreams of the new age.

In the era of globalisation and liberalisation, the gap between the young the old reached its zenith. Old thinks education as the only way to ‘access but to young’s in reality education only creates unemployment. Now the life has become very competitive and fast. So, young’s have to run very fast to cope up with the competition of the world and prove themselves as the best. But the old never can cope up with the speed of the young.

The voting people nowadays have free mind with the coming of free market. They do not want anything which acts as a barrier to their thinking and old people acts as a block to their aspiration and thus there is a constant clash between the two and this enlarges the generation gap and frustrates both the young and old.

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Generation gap between the young and the old has become so acute that in Western countries, the children live separately from their parents on being young and only visit them in the weekend. In the east, the concept of joint family system is being replaced by nuclear family. Old parents are being sent in the old age homes.

Thus, generation gap is destroying the basic human relationship and is obviously a threat to the social stability of family relations. This can be curbed only if both hear the voice of the other carefully and with sympathy by forgetting that both are always gold.

The young’s must realise that the older members of the family are their responsibilities, as they have been taken care of by the elders during childhood. These realisations may fill up the generation gap.