The Protection of the Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in Children

Abstract

The paper deals with the current problems of the protection of children's rights in the Polish legal order, and based on the resolutions of the Polish Constitution of 1997, the Convention of Children's Rights of 1989, and the law of the system of education of 1991. The object of our analysis encompasses the following: I. the conception of child as the subject of the freedom of thought, conscience and religion. II. The object of child's entitlement in exercising freedom: 1) the freedom of thought, 2) the freedom of conscience, 3) the freedom of religion; III. limitations as regards the exercise of the freedom of religion; IV. the legal protection of the freedom of conscience and the religion of child.