Soviet-era ideology legitimized "poverty equality" through lower-than-life standards. The liberalization of post-state reforms after the collapse of the USSR increased the socio-economic polarity of society. Poverty in families raising children with disabilities has become apparent. Based on the results of basic and up-to-date studies of scientific texts and applying an interdisciplinary approach, the article singles out three critical factors - "KG", which structure the poverty-like families. Education of financial success, education of social "exclusion and special education institutional practice", education of "human resources and family capital". Multidimensional in nature. The multidimensionality of each factor is manifested in that each of them includes a series of factors that are simultaneously present at different levels. Macro- (management system), meso- (socio-cultural and special education), micro- (family), which are interconnected by complex structures and are structured in a special way in each family. All of these factors are critical to understanding the full picture of the misfortunes and deprivations of families with developmental disabilities. The dominant ones belong to the macro-class factor, the system of government. Special education in Moldova and Ukraine in the radical-Soviet "defectological educational model", which is constantly standardized on the principle of socialist humanism, constructing the context of social exclusion in the form of "defective", which is "defectologically". At the same time, the inter-inclusive processes in European education, driven by neoliberal reforms and a lack of economic thinking, have posed new problems in the structure of poverty-reduction and reproduction-specific education.