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This study aims at finding out the attitudes of parents toward children’s rights and examining the link between moral maturity of primary level students. The participants of the study consist of 7 state primary schools representing lower, middle and upper socio-economic levels in Karşiyaka District of İzmir province and seventh-grade students representing a private primary school and their parents. As data collection tools, ‘Parent Attitude Scale on Children Rights’ developed by Yurtsever and Oktay (2009) and ‘Moral Maturity Scale’ developed by Dilmac (1999) are used. To analyze the data, Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test, Spearman’s Rho Analysis are utilized. According to the results of the study, moral maturity of seventh-grade students based on gender differs in terms of love; once based on the socio-economic levels of schools, it differs in terms of inner peace, violence avoidance and righteous behaviors. There are vertical, weak relationships between moral maturity and the attitudes of parents toward children’s rights, even if they differ in various sub dimensions. The relationship between the moral maturity of children and the attitudes of parents toward children’s rights differs, based on the socio-economic level of the school where students are educated. 

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