Pedagogical profile of the relationship between parents as prisoners and the child`s behaviour

This article deals with the relationship between parents (fathers) serving imprisonment and their children. The study aims at finding out whether there is a correlation between the father’s negative behavior and its impact on his own children. Fathers serving imprisonment in Stara Zagora Prison and their children took part in the study. Complex methods were used, i.e. diagnostic interview carried out with the fathers (prisoners), class teachers and pedagogical advisors; observation of the children’s behavior in real pedagogical environment; document analysis; mathematical and statistical methods for processing empirical data. The criterion reference study scheme included child’s behavior type (aggressive, positive, combined) and types of aggression (verbal, physical, combined, auto-aggression). The empirical information allows elaborating recommendations with reference to the individual work with children whose parents are in prison. The focus of the study is not the parent –child biological relation but the role of the family as a social environment with distorted value system.