Vaiko teisės: tėvų požiūris į jas ir elgesys su vaiku
Child’s Rights:Parents Attitudes Towards Child Rights And Real Behavior With Child

Summary/Abstract: Parents’ attitudes towards child rights and they behavior with children are analyzed in this rticle. It needs to mention, that the problem of child rights care is quite new and important for nowadays pedagogical and psychological investigators. In Lithuania child’s rights protection is guaranteed by the State and its institutions, local municipality institutions and non-governmental institutions that are directly involved in protecting child’s rights. The President’s of the Republic of Lithuanian Decree of May 30, 1996 established Consultative Board of Children affairs under President of the Republic of Lithuania. The Board provides information concerning the factual situation of children and their families’ social rights to President and the society. The Commission of Family and Child Affairs in the Parliament, established February 25, 1997, introduces proposals on forming the child and family rights protection policy. The Child’s Rights Protection Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour analyses the problems of rights protection and cases of rights violation. The role of non-governmental organizations in protecting and ensuring child’s rights is considerable. There are two main non-governmental organizations working in the sector of child’s rights protection. They are: Lithuanian Children’s Rights Protection Association ‘Save the Children’ and the Lithuanian National UNICEF Committee. They are actively involved in disseminating the knowledge of child’s rights in the society (among parents). The child’s Rights Protection Law of the Lithuanian Republic, passed March 14, 1996, determines the main children rights and their guarantees, liberties and duties, considering the specific status of the child in the family and society. It is essential to ensure existential, developmental, protection and participation rights of children. Existential rights include the child’s right to grow and live well, developmental rights declare children development according to their needs, interests and hobbies, protection rights guard children against humiliation, fears and violence. Participation rights protect children’s right to express their own opinion and to be heard, actively participate in various activities and to feel important as well as self-confident. All the best is done to ensure child rights care in families and in children upbringing institutions. It needs to stress, that it is difficult to understand for parents that children have their rights and it is necessary to take them in response. So, interacting with children they still violate their rights. That prompts to examine parents’ standpoint about children rights, their respect and care features in the parents and children interaction in Lithuanian pre-school upbringing institutions...

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