learning in their view the necessary and useful skills. There are parents who, besides
this, still strive to tightly control not only behavior but also the inner world of the child,
her thoughts, desires, and so on. This leads to deep family crises, conflicts, loss of even
the external signs of a prosperous family. Mental discomfort causes the child to seek
refuge in various social environments [1].
A disadvantaged family is a family that, because of objective or subjective
reasons, has lost its educational opportunities, because of which there are unfavorable
conditions for the upbringing of the child.
The disadvantages families include:
- families where parents – alcoholics, drug addicts – are immoral. In such families,
the formation of the child is distorted. The child is born weak, painful, suffering from
neuropsychiatric diseases, grows without care, burns, does not have the most
necessary;
- families are asocial. Their members are in conflict with the moral and legal
norms of society, prone to violations;
- families are conflicting. They have constant conflicts between parents, parents
and children, which are manifested in quarrels, controversies, reciprocal images,
rudeness, and even fights. There are such families because of the lack of mutual
relations between parents of mutual understanding, mutual help, sincerity, moral and
emotional parenting. Here, rudeness, strife, mutual threats, persistent dissatisfaction,
which leads to a family crisis, prevail. Children develop anxiety, fear, uncertainty in
their abilities. Lack of positive emotions, they compensate for the search for them in
street companies, vagrancy, the use of alcohol, drugs;
- families are incomplete. They have one parent, mostly mother. They arise mainly
as a result of divorce, the death of one of the parents, deprivation of parental rights, etc.
In such families, communication with children is depleted, often they are experiencing
difficulties of everyday character, psychological discomfort, therefore, they often lack
the balance, benevolence, instead they exhibit excessive irritation, indifference;
- families, seemingly safe. In them, parents systematically assume serious
miscalculations in family education due to the low pedagogical culture and lack of
education (families with formal relationships with children, lack of unity in the
requirements for the child, lack of care, excessive parenting love or strictness in
upbringing, use of physical punishment, etc.);
- families of social risk. These are socially disadvantaged families who need social
assistance and support (low-income, large family,
disabled children, disabled parents,
incomplete ones). They cannot fully perform their functions as a result of complex
social conditions [1].
Family disadvantage as a factor of criminality within juvenile. The problem
of disadvantaged families is a relevant issue for Ukrainian society. It requires its
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