The most significant factor in the child formation is the family, which takes the main responsibility for the child. Therefore, children education could not be accredited to the school only. The relevance of the paper subject is predicated on the determination of the causes of poor attendance that can be related to the family, also developing the family influence for nonattendance, the interaction of family and school is analyzed. The unconcern of the parents to the children and family problems incite children to tramp, miss classes, they start learning poorly, and the starting or deepening phenomena of dissociality may be noticed. Special institutions take care of such families, however, this wardship is not sufficient and it does not give the desirable results. The number of children who miss classes is increasing, pupils find themselves in the contraposition of family and school values. In the methodical part of the paper the family peculiarities of the children poorly attending school are theoretically motivated, a classified view of this phenomenon is structured. Empirical research of the family peculiarities of pupils poorly attending school reveals the feedback between the determinative theoretical statements, which could be the ground for the help intended for the school aged children in order to attend school properly. For this stage of the research, the direct questionnaire method was applied, the respondents being pupils and teachers. 604 respondents participated... [to full text]