ABSTRACT
The article considers the impact of lock-down and quarantine on family relationships and adaptation strategies of young families. The results demonstrate that young families demonstrate both stability during lock-down period and capacity to resist the pandemic crisis. However, isolation period revealed psychological and social problems of family relationships. The pandemic period became the most stressogenic factor for young families with children where parents combine their family responsibilities with "remote" labor activity. The current level of emotional exhaustion of young mothers depends on two components: material well-being of family and age of children. The families with two and more children and families fostering children aged less than 5 years survive most hardly period of self-isolation. The gender inequalities that are traditional for Russian families intensified in conditions of quarantine. The most common coping strategies with these conditions for young males are "escape into Internet", loneliness, alcohol consumption and sport activities. At the same time females prefer caring of their children, housework and involvement in creative activities.
