The Right of Children to Know their Parents - A Constitutive Element of the Child's Identity

• Author: Andreea Draghici - Ionel Didea - Ramona Duminica
• Position: Senior Lecturer, PhD, Faculty of Juridical and Administrative Sciences, University of Pitesti, Romania - Professor PhD, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Pitesti, Romania - Assistant PhD, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Pitesti, Romania
• Pages: 115-123

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Abstract:

Given that in the last c

and children’s rights implicitly, a

field, the pr esent study is meant

parent

s as a constitutive elemen

consideration the r ecent opinion

implications of this field of la

interdisciplinary quality, combin

right of the child to know hi

development of self-

conscience.

the new values attributed to the r

concerning the controversial pro

identity of the child and the real

Keywords:

legal identity; real id

1. Introduction

Legally speaking, any hum

all human beings a legal

obligations at the time of b

life, a

bility which differs f

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PhD, Facult

Romania, 71 Republicii

andidraghici@yahoo.com.

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Professor PhD, Faculty of La

Republicii Blv

d., Pitesti, Romani

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Assistant PhD, Faculty of La

Republicii Blv

d., Pitesti,

duminica.ramona@yahoo.com.

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The Right of Children to Know their

Parents –

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Child’s Identity

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ant to a dd to the debate surrounding the right of children to know

ent of their identity.

During the wr iting of this study, we too

ions in doctrine and the r egulations in this fi eld as well as the pra

law. The analysis is not st

rictly focused on the law, but it h

bining several methods of research in order to highlight the role th

his/her past and that of his family in his formative year a n

ce. The importance of this study li es in the results of our research

e right of children to know their par ents, as well as the arguments

roblem of discordance which may app

ear between the legal or ap

al identity in case of adoption and artificial insemination.

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; parents

uman being is currently a subject of the law, which g

gal personality, meaning the ability to obtain rights

f birth. Every person has the ability to take part in the

s from one individual to another. Valuing these rights

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