Backround: This article presents the results of our research, the main aim of which was to examine which factors influenced the results of social work with families. The research sample consisted of 38 families which had children placed in institutional care. Social work for the purpose of remediation of families was realized by the organization Smile as a Gift. In our article we present the partial results of our research, namely the specific finding of whether there is a connection between the time of separation of the child from the family and its interest about the child. We want to compare our research results with the findings of Mikloskova et al. 2020 who examined the types of bonding behaviour of children placed in centers for children and families in Slovakia. They obtained interesting results which point to the need for rapid involvement of parents in the process of remediation immediately after the removal of the child from the family. Methods: Our research sample consisted of 38 families, which had children placed in institutional care. Intensive field social work was carried out with the families of the children for a period of one year after the child was removed from the biological family and subsequently placed in institutional care. Content analysis of the collection of documents of selected families and own observation. The clients' collections of documents consisted of the following materials: an anamnesis report on the family, social diagnostics of the family prepared according to the methodology of the program PRIDE by which we identified the status of the family in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, ecomaps, genocharts, developmental puzzle of the child, a table with the history of losses of each family member. To process the objectives of the research queations we used the Pearson's chi-square test method as a statistical method that allows us to verify whether a random variable has certain predetermined probability distributions. Results: The main aim of the research was to find out whether there is a connection between the period of separation of the child from the family and its interest about the child. We compare the results of our research with the identified styles of relational bond- behaviour of children placed in institutional care throughout Slovak republic. Conclusion: The results that are presented are the results of our own work with the families of children from children's homes which were included in the remediation process after removing children from the family environment.
