Sociopathological phenomena in a family and their influence on the delinquent behaviour of minors

The role of a family reflects almost all parts of children's lives. It directly affects the development of the children (minors), their upbringing, the way how they understand life circumstances and human relations, and it also affects their acts in the future. Regarding their age, the specific characteristics of minors' psycho-physical conditions contribute to the fact that they are more easily subject to negative influences, especially if those influences come from the family itself. Destructive consequences which sociopathological phenomena leave on the people who manifest them are obvious, various and hard. However, it cannot be ignored their influence on minors who are growing up in these families.