Cooperation between the family-type foster-home and comprehensive schools solving problems of teenagers‘ motivation Relevance. Each person is unique with the combination of his/her abilities, experience, emotions and values. The wish to learn is a natural exploratory reflex which is based on positive emotions and stimulates the activity, tempers the will and gives a sence of aim and work. The expansion of these first principles depends not only on private attitude, but also on the interaction between a child and real-life environment. Statistics shows that 95 % of 7-15 year-old pupils nowadays seek for compulsory education (www.std.lt). In the reports about the social evolution in Lithuania (1999, 2003) it is said that 18-24 thousand children do not attend schools because of the lack of motivation, poverty, illnesses and living in associable families. Solving this problem the state limits or takes away the right of growing children from parents of associable families and provide the child with the supervision: firstly, it is being searched for the relatives of the child to legitimize the care or adoption; secondly, the child can be taken to the appropriate institution: families or state foster-homes (Civil Code, 2002). Juridical documents indicate that a care of a child in a family is such a form of a care when the corporate body (a family) takes care of six or more children. The children of such a family assume the status of foster-children and the social workers... [to full text]