This research deals mainly with the impact of a family on an ineffectual studying of children. Unwillingness to study has become one of the most serious problems of general education. It is a very important reason for being absent from school, not attending lessons, repeating studies, and elimination from school. Students, who have to repeat their studies, quite often break them. Such kind of students and teenagers usually join the groups of unskilled labor force, unemployed people or even go with criminal gangs. From the social perspective the group of students who do not want to study and who are absent from school quite often is also problematic. They hate school and teachers, tramp in the streets, quite often use hard drink and drugs, smoke, and behave not socially. The aim of the research is to reveal the peculiarities of the families in which children study ineffectually. The goals of the research are: to analyze pedagogical and psychological literature researching the impact of a family on effective/ineffective studying; to interpret effective/ineffective studying in the context of new social changes and the process of education reform; to do the empirical research and to analyze the results from the perspective of social reasons (family) of ineffective studying. A survey has been carried out where questionnaires were given to the ineffectively studying students and their mentors, and the following conclusions could be proposed. Family atmosphere influences the... [to full text]