This qualitative research describes youth protection reports and their assessment based on 48 records of children from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds. These records have been selected by 24 youth protection workers. The results are organized in accordance with themes that are very near the legal criteria taken into consideration towards the decision-making process. A second level of analysis emphasizes ethnocultural or migration related contents appearing in the cases’ narrative and descriptive sections. Afterwards, each situation is observed and described so that similar family profiles can be placed together. This exercise yields four distinct family dynamics: families going through a crisis, families abdicating their parenting responsibilities, isolated families, and broken families.