A complex study of a sample of 1,029 children and young people cared for in orphanages revealed the increased incidence of the disorders of behaviour in these categories (33%) with great difficulties of post-school integration (70%). Factors like: affective frustration, noxious family climate intellectual handicap, socializing defect, school failure, etc. are deeply involved in the genesis of juvenile maladjustment and it further on can be found within the nucleus of the sociopathic personality and in adult's deviance.