Problem. Currently the problem of protection of pre-school children’s rights in Lithuania has become of utmost importance; however this phenomenon has received little attention from researchers. Various sources point out that a family has to teach children to love and approach a human being as a value and to make attempts not to violate a sense of human value and liberties. Due to insufficient level of self-education, a big number of parents are not even aware of children‘s rights or hardly realise the necessity to consider and respect them.

Keywords: pre-school children, family, rights.

The goal of the research. To reveal parents' opinion about the rights of pre-school children.

The objectives of the research:

1. to identify parents' opinion about child‘s rights.

2. to identify factors that influence parents' opinion about their children’s rights.

The methods of the research: analysis of theoretical literature sources; parents' opinion survey, interview, statistical methods, correlation analysis.

The sample of the research: 593 parents.

Conclusions. The research revealed that parents only partially respect and protect children’s rights, respect for children‘s rights to biggest extent depends on parents education, gender, nationality and place of living.

Recommendations. To optimise collaboration of family, pre-school education and local governmental institutions, non-governmental organisations ‘Save the Children‘ and  UNICEF Lithuania on issues related to children‘s rights.