The aim of this study is to find out the impact of monetary allowances and compensations to receivers: families and persons. The main questions were: what kind of monetary relief makes the biggest influence to the life of families, which fields of family life (reproductive, economic, child-raising) monetary relief impacts the most. The methods of qualitative interviewing of social work experts and quantitative questioning of social workers were used. In this study it was find out that the biggest impact to the family life makes social allowance and allowance of child. Allowance of child makes the biggest influence to large families, especially living in rural areas. Some families in order to receive allowances decided not to register marriage, to have children, hide their real income and number of persons, living in family. Conditions of getting social allowance encouraged persons to register in the market of labor, but did not encouraged them to look for the job, to change their qualifications. Many allowance receivers were illegal workers. Allowances also negatively impacts families’ social status and self-perception, but this is most probably effects of poverty. Experts evaluate the positive impact of allowances to the life of family as poor; allowances, especially social allowance, are too small to maintain family in crisis, and do not perform its main function.

Demografinių tyrimų rezultatai rodo, kad sparčiai mažėjant santuokų ir didėjant ištuokų skaičiui, daugėjant nesantuokinių vaikų bei populiarėjant naujoms partnerystės formoms Lietuvoje gausėja nepilnų šeimų, kurių galva – moteris. Tokios šeimos dažniau patiria skurdą, susiduria su socialinėmis – psichologinėmis problemomis. Šeimos, gyvenančios kaime, situacija dar sudėtingesnė dėl ribotų socialinės raidos galimybių ir nepakankamos socialinių paslaugų pasiūlos. Tyrimo problema apima šiuos klausimus: kokia vienišų motinų situacija ir pagalbos galimybės gyvenant kaime, kokia natūrali pagalbos sistema, kokie jų lūkesčiai? Tyrimo objektas: socialinė pagalba vienišai motinai, auginančiai vaikus kaime. Tyrimo tikslas: atskleisti socialinės pagalbos vienišai motinai, auginančiai vaikus kaime, ypatumus ir išryškinti šios pagalbos tikslus bei metodus. Uždaviniai: 1. Aptarti vienišą motinystę, kaip psichosocialinį reiškinį. 2. Išryškinti socialinės pagalbos ypatumus teikiant paslaugas vienišai motinai kaime. 3. Apžvelgti juridines prielaidas nustatant, kokią pagalbą vienišai motinai jos užtikrina. 4. Atskleisti vienišos motinos situaciją, pagalbos galimybes, tikslus bei metodus. Tyrimo metodai: mokslinės literatūros, dokumentų, statistinių duomenų analizė, giluminis nestruktūruotas interviu ir kontent analizė, naudojama kokybiniame aprašomajame tyrime. Tyrimo metu buvo naudojama atranka pagal prieinamumą. Tyrime dalyvavo 8 vienišos motinos, įtrauktos į seniūnijos socialinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The facts of demographics and results of special research suggest that, as since the beginning of 1990 the number of marriages has been decreasing, the number of divorces has been increasing, the number of irregular children has been growing and the new forms of partnership has been popularized, the number of one-parent families, where a householder is a woman, has been spread in Lithuania. Such families are more often inscribed in the category of low-income families or even those who live below the poverty. level dealing with social – psychological problems. Research problem involves the following issues: the situation and problems of single mother families in rural areas, their expectations and environment. Target group: social assistance to the single mother raising children in rural areas. Research objectives: to establish opportunities of social assistance to a single mother; to highlight objectives and methods. Goals: • to discuss the reasons that determine single motherhood as psychological phenomenon. • to highlight the peculiarities of social support rendering assistance to single mothers in rural areas. • to view legal suggestions rendering assistance to single mother families. • to establish single mothers‘ expectations, support opportunities, objectives and methods Research methods: analysis of scientific literature, documents and statistics; a profound non-structural interview. The cross-section was applied in the research work in accordance to accessibility... [to full text]