The article is methodically and compositionally subordinated to the ideological design of the investigation, which consists in determining the degree of legitimacy of moral norms of 111 journalism concerning children. Сonsequently, the main focus of the exploration is on identifying legal arguments to confirm or wave aside the provisions of professional ethics which regulate the activities of international and Ukrainian journalists in the preparation of materials concerningchildren. In the article is submitteda detailed analysis of international and national legal documents on children’s rights, Ukrainian media and other legislation, on the one hand, and international and Ukrainian documents on journalistic morals that designate the professional behavior of journalists with children, on the other. Their simileis carried outin the key to installation an ideological relationship between the relevant provisions of morality and law at the international and Ukrainian levels. It is clarified which provisions on the moral behavior of journalists with children are legally justified; which provisions on the moral behavior of journalists with children are without a legal basis; which provisions of the legislation on the rights of the child should be made into journalistic ethics documents concerning the behaviour with children. Caught out and explained the causes of problems of lawful and unlawful, at the same time, the norms of journalistic morals concerning children, other weak and strong stance of documents. The urgency of carrying out regular editions of moral norms of journalism about children in order to specify them and legalize them is proved.
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