Guaranteeing and observing the rights of children and placing them into an area of special interest are matters of national priority. This priority may also be formulated as follows: the life, development and welfare that all children have to benefit from at the beginning of this new century and millennium are the foundation on which the future of a country is built. In addition to that, in the case of Romania, the complex process of EU accession is inexorably linked to the observance of the political criteria laid down in Copenhagen concerning the observance of human rights, with a special emphasis on the rights of the child.