The article presents a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of separation, reveals the struc-ture, types,
and styles, and describes the process of separating young people from the parental family. Since young
people, in particular, students must adapt to the new standards of education, the requirements of the labor
market, and the rhythm of life in general. And one of the main character traits in demand today is
independence. This also implies separation from the parental family for the formation of self-reliance in a
person, the habit of taking responsibility for their decisions. The process of separating a personality,
however, does not always pass easily and painlessly due to the influence of many factors. This phenomenon
and its features are well covered in foreign, more often Western, and Russian studies. Also, the topic of
separation of student youth was touched upon by Russian psychologists in the framework of dissertations
and scientific articles in various disciplines. In domestic science, unfortunately, the issue was practically
not considered. Based on this, we carried out an analysis of various sources on the issue of psychological
separation of adolescents, which allowed us to build our own research on this topic. The results of the
theoretical analysis of the special literature showed that the parental family retains its significance to this
day. In particular, emotional closeness, trusting relationships within the family, and parents' acceptance of
the fact that children are growing up are factors in the painless transition of young people to autonomy. The
empirical part of the article provides data from our own survey of 256 undergraduate students of
Kazakhstani universities, conducted in November 2020. The results showed a high percentage of successful
relationships with the parental family in a sample of Kazakhstani students: in most cases, the psychological
distance is comfortable, and the personal boundaries and opinions of respondents are respected.