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This paper aims to present the socio-pedagogical perspective of the meaning of the elements in a child’s environment, that ma ybe indicators of poverty, specifying the threshold of bio-socio-cul-tural endangerment. Poverty as a categoryis multiplied by context – family, environmental, educational, and individual situations of a child experiencing the deprivation of needs. This perspective requires paying attention in the analysis of the complexity of the issue. The argument for the necessity to remember to think complex in stating the final aims for action in the practice field, aiming at aiding a child’s development in his/her life environment, has be endeveloped. The analysis of endangering a child’s development by poverty is carried out in growth processes, social rooting and introducing values in reference to the category, which may be ‘risk indicators” for a child’s development in the context of poverty. These are, among others,: the threshold of developmental endangering, indicators of poverty, social age or the general environmental indicator. Such ananalysis aims at in dicating, in a complex way, the directions for progressing the nurturing of a child’s development. These are: acting against environmental issues endangering the development of a child due to poverty, supplementing shortcomings, allowing for the creation of ‘social chance conditions” or even rescuing the child, expressed in isolating him/her from their life environment.