The goal of this article is to highlight the role of a school, here understood as an educational facility, during the course of parental rights termination proceedings. There can be no doubt that the process of upbringing, especially the domestic factors and intense stimulus to which the child is subjected translate into patterns of behaviour and the way the child functions at school. Notably, prolonged learn-ing difficulties among children or periods in which the child presents complete disregard for societal norms and a lack of discipline should be a clear signal for the teachers and counsellors to review the family environment of the pupil in question. The article covers data regarding the school’s participation in the parental rights termination proceedings – e.g. opinions and recommendations formulated by the schools, teacher’s testimonies and children scorecards which reflect the educational progress of the child. The materials used include source materials (acts and ordinances, written opinions, Supreme and common court rulings), results of own research – casefile review based on a targeted casefile research questionnaire.

The purpose of this article is to present the course of the proceedings regarding the limitation of parental authority by placing the child in a care and educational institution based on the analysis of the results of own-study research. A very important subject of the research was evidence collected in the examined cases. Examined among others, the most frequent factors that pose a threat to the child’s good. This article also takes into account theoretical considerations on parental authority and its limitations.

The purpose of this article is, first of all, to answer the question of how the court determines parental authority in divorce judgments in comparison with judgments separating. It was also analyzed whether the court, in divorce matters and in matters relating to separation, duly and thoroughly carries out evidence proceed-ings, using all available and adequate evidence in a given case. This article contains theoretical considerations regarding parental authority in Polish family law. In addition, the article analyzes the author’s own research – the files concerning cases in which the Court settled the parental authority of divorced parents and spouses separated.

The subject matter of this paper is the analysis of the phenomenon of subordination
as a manifestation of the relationships between political authority and society and of the phenomenon of equality as an inherent right of individuals. The author has made an attempt to examine the mutual relationships between the two phenomena, especially from the perspective of the impact on the establishment of relationships between political authority and society.

Authority – even though the title of this paper may suggest so – is not a phenomenon opposing culture. It is actually a product of culture or, as sometimes said, of the achievements of civilisation. Since authority is a product of culture, it may not be treated as a phenomenon isolated from it, without any ties with cultural patterns, which may – as a result – act as determinants of the institutional and functional qualities of authority. Culture and its products (including knowledge, law, religion, morality, etc.), like other social phenomena, can become factors stimulating the exercise of authority, or act as factors to stabilise or curb this exercise within the framework of the patterns (norms) it has created. Societies make constant choices in terms of adopting, modifying, and rejecting various cultural patterns.

Przedmiotem drugiej części artykułu (pierwsza część została opublikowana w numerze 1/2019 „Krytyki Prawa”) pozostaje analiza wpływu wzorców kultury, m. in. takich jak uczciwość, dialog społeczny, eliminacja przemocy, na formowanie stosunków między władzą a członkami społeczności państwowej.