When a doubt of violation of children's rights and well-being appears, it can be treated with a variety of (preventive and repressive) measures, of which is removal children from home one of the most stringent. This paper provides an overview of legislative measures to protect the child's personal rights and well-being which are prescribed by the current Family Law, as well as measures to protect the interests of the child mentioned in other legal texts. They are also mentioned some specifics of protection of children's rights in the legal systems of some European countries. Most attention in the paper is dedicated to the presentation and analysis of the practice of international tribunals in removal children from home and media representaton of the pratice of removal children from home in Republic of Croatia, as well as the review of the imposed measures and the views of experts and the public on removal children from home. The paper discusses also the issues of the ingraided negative attitude on removal children from home of the society.