Growing up in a family affected by poverty increases the probability that the next generation will also be poor. In our contribution, we ask how family circumstances and relationships as well as the associated behavioral patterns can contribute to intergenerational transmission of poverty and/ or the escape out of this transmission pattern. We would like to contribute to this research in a two-fold way: first, we will respond to the specific methodological demands associated with this and formulate practical implementation of “placing into relation” individual interviews with family members of different generations. In addition, we will focus not only on sameness and its subsequent transmission of particular behavioral patterns, but also on establishing/setting boundaries. On the basis of an exemplary analysis, we will show how the narrative interviews which we carried out with the parent and child generations methodologically refer to one another. Our complex approach of ‘placing into relation’ makes it possible to investigate the single biographies as well as the intergenerational relationships and their reciprocal effects. Especially, the omnipresent comparisons of perception, interpretation and activity patterns of important life story experiences and themes of mothers and daughters provide important findings, whereby distinct differences between the generations can be identified.