Conceptual approaches to determining the legal status of a child in modern conditions

The article deals with the problems of theory related to the absence in the norms of the legislation of the Russian Federation of the definition of the concept of the legal status of a child, the elements that determine its content, which does not allow us to identify the specifics of the legal status of such a special subject of law as a child. Such a legislative provision has a very unfavorable effect on law enforcement, and ultimately on the child himself and his rights, which requires a revision of the foundations formed in the theory of law about the legal status of the individual, their modern “adaptation” in relation to the child. The author comes to the conclusion that the trends in the development of legislation, the norms of which are aimed at regulating relations with the participation of a child, the degree of his activity in relations of a diversified type, indicate the need to highlight not only the general status, but also a special, individual legal status of the child, the content of which will allow more accurate identify the specifics of its legal status in comparison with other participants in civil circulation.