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264Ileana Romanelements considered (successively, isolated) responsible for the apparition of thedelinquency which implies the minors, are not significant anymore. Theunilateral explanations regarding the disorganized family, the poverty, theunemployment or only the influence of the mass-media, when approachingcertain subjects, were, successively, abandoned.When the sociologist studies the individual and his behavior, finds thatthis person was born in a social group, in a family which feeds him/her, thatsatisfies his/her organic needs and that transmits, through the personal exampleand through education, the thoughts and the beliefs, the cultural heritageaccumulated by this family. Among these ideas also occur the rules he/her musttake into consideration when regarding the relationships with other people and,especially, the relationships with his/her family. This is the first and the mostimportant step, which actually represents the basis for the individual’s futurementality regarding the family life in general and, specially, the intra-familyrelationships.The huge importance accorded to this first period of development, whichmight take years, leads to the premise that the family, no matter its structure,could be considered the most important of the human groups regarding thedetermination of the social-moral fundament of the human personality.The child needs a family, but not any family; the educative functionalityof the family depends on the parents, on their maturity, quality, on the value ofthe couple and on the position each spouse has in the familial group.Once with the ageing, the individual get in contact with other groups,becomes the member of an organized educative group, of a neighborhood, of aprofessional group etc. The activity carried on in these groups is supervised bystandards of behavior, which consolidate or diminish those gained previously.Some of the standards of one group could be incompatible or in conflict withother groups; once with the belonging to different social groups, the individual’sexistence becomes a continuous process of accommodation to the exigencies ofthe group 3 .That’s why the educational results of the family owe great significance.The deeper and more comprehensive the contribution of the family regarding theeducation is, the more is reduced the degree of susceptibility of the child regardingthe people and the facts, the more rational is the attitude towards the dutiesaccording with his/her age and towards the social rules generally accepted.Nonconformity to the accepted rules of the group imposes the finding ofan explanation and gives rise to the questions:- Which are the characteristics and the specific conditions of the group(either internal or in the inter-groups relationships) that favor or determine anonconformist behavior?3 Dan Banciu, Sorin M. Rădulescu, Adolescenţii şi familia, Bucureşti, The Scientific andEncyclopedic Publishing House, 1987, p. 143.