The first steps in the development of children's rights took place between the First and Second World Wars. The war changed the way adults look at children and it became obvious that they needed some kind of legislative protection. Awareness of this issue continued to develop in the post-war period when one of the most important documents on children's rights was being prepared. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted in 1989, and Croatia accepted and ratified it in the early 1990s. It took Croatia several more years after the war to fulfill its obligation to create a legislative framework for the protection of children's rights. Today, Croatia has a number of laws that protect children's rights, but also emphasizes the obligations of adults towards children. The focus of this paper are the laws of the Republic of Croatia, more precisely, the six laws that form a kind of legislative framework for the protection of children's rights. Analyzed in order to find out to what extent each type of law under the Convention is represented in the laws of the Republic of Croatia. Also, the paper tries to show the way in which emergencies can lead to desirable changes in legislation and further expand the rights of children that one country, in this case Croatia, offers. Children's rights are an important issue for political scientists that is often overlooked, but although they are not lawyers they participate in law-making processes and they are the ones who influence these changes.