The aim of this research was to determine the self-assessment of the pedagogical competence of the fathers of social assistance recipients. According to this, the questionnaire „Scale of perception of parental competence for the parental role“ (SAKORU) by GustovićErcegovac (1992) was used in this research. For data processing were used 68 questionnaires that were considered valid, respectively those that the fathers filled in completely and correctly in all categories. The research was started with the hypotheses that the structure of the pedagogical competence of parents does not represent a unique space according to the assessment of fathers (H1) and that there is a statistically significant relationship between certain sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, employment status, professional qualification, sources of income, receipt of social assistance, housing status, number and age of children in the family) and selfassessments of father's pedagogical competence (H2). The results showed that the areas of pedagogical competence and pedagogical incompetence are separate areas, and therefore the first hypothesis was accepted, while the second hypothesis was partially accepted due to the fact that most sociodemographic data are not significantly correlated with the overall result on the scale except age,