
The author compares the scope of legal and international protection of the child’s welfare and its freedom from violence with Polish regulations, especially in terms of the concept of parental authority and parents’ rights to care or contact
with the child. The proper functioning of the family seems to be crucial for guaranteeing the child’s right, which is its well-being – understood as the basic principle (the principle of the best interests of the child). For this reason, the author analyses whether Polish law retains the priority of the best interests of the child and whether in law, doctrine, and jurisprudence parents’ authority is understood in terms of parental responsibility for the implementation of the principle of the best interests of the child and its best development, and whether the law effectively protects children in a situation of family dysfunction or a parent’s behaviour that
threatens the child’s welfare.