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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">MTD</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Mokslo ir tikėjimo dialogai. Tiltai. Priedas: Mokslo darbai</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-3979</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">05_VAITKEVICIUS</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/mtd.v0i8.2481</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Prigimtinė žmogaus teisė auklėti  savo vaikus</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Vaitkevičius</surname>
            <given-names>Andrius</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:andriuvaitkeviciu@yahoo.com">andriuvaitkeviciu@yahoo.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>52</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>96</fpage>
      <lpage>110</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>23</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
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      <abstract>
        <p>In the article, we analyse the natural right of parents to raise their children, the law arising from their being natural parents and bringing children into the world. We make an analysis of the problematical understanding of natural law and rights. These form not only the point of view of the right education and the educational powers of separate individuals (parents), but also of all of society and the state. We analyse the challenges to the modern Western world which questions the ability of parents to raise their children in the best and most acceptable way to them. We delve deeper into the pre-Christian understanding of natural rights and laws exposed in the reflections and conceptual understanding of the Ancient philosophers, as well as the Christian approach in understanding the natural law and rights of parents on the understanding of children’s education, analysing and understanding the guidelines presented by the Pontifical Council for the Family, and looking at the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church’s concept of education.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>nature</kwd>
        <kwd>natural law</kwd>
        <kwd>education</kwd>
        <kwd>family</kwd>
        <kwd>parents’ right to raise children</kwd>
        <kwd>relations between state and parents</kwd>
        <kwd>family and society</kwd>
        <kwd>socialisation</kwd>
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