The objective of the given article is the child rights national and international mechanisms full analysis, with the utmost stress upon Georgian legal base and court practice. The discussion refers to legislation of Georgia , European legislative systems , and child rights protection international acts , particularly, EU convention of human rights article 8 and UN convention article 12. The research considers in detail difficulties of balancing parents’ rights and child’s best interests. Certain problematic issues are defined in legislative space of Georgia , amongst them ,vacuum in the terminology of normative acts and the degree of court litigation on the child’s legal decisions. Shortcomings of social services agencies work are described , family relations sphere, where legal , moral, and civil interests are closely intertwined, all of that demands close attention on the state’s part. Notwithstanding the fact that child rights are established in more than 150 legal acts, normative plenitude does not mean that there are no problems in implementation of these acts. In the paper existing drawbacks are stated and their eradication ways are suggested, amongst them, institutional reform and clarification of the legislation.
Dali Chanidze (Thu,) studied this question.