This master's essay deals with family-school partnership and its influence on children. Schools and families belong to main institutions with irreplaceable influence on education and personality development of human being. Both of these subjects must therefore effectively cooperate. Schools provide children with education and training support but it is necessary to coordinate these activities with parent's intentions. The essay also focuses on negative aspects affecting education, training and school-parents cooperation. It emphasizes the parent's influence on children's achievements in education. Currently we can very often observe marriage breakdowns and partnership instability with has disastrous impact on children's position in family and school. Broken families, as a source of negative situations, reflect children's behaviour and their attitude to education. The essay also submits possible ways of solution, prevention and managing with crisis situations, both at school and at home.