Abstract
The article researches the issue of implementation of international standards for the protection of children's rights under the laws of the United States. The author analyzes the provisions of the certain international treaties on the protection of children's rights, that were not ratified by the United States and did not become the part of its national law. It is established that the articles of such international acts provide the uniform minimum requirements for the protection of children's rights and ensuring "the best interests of the child", that consist of the requirements concerning normal physiological, psychological, cultural and educational development of the child. The reasons for the refusal to ratify certain international treaties on the protection of children's rights by the United States are substantiated. Among these grounds are, firstly, the peculiarities of American legal doctrine, explaining the meticulous attitude to the ratification of such international legal acts, that do not fully comply with the legal norms of national law. It is proven, that however the national mechanism for the protection of children's rights developed in the United States autonomously, but such development does accord with the requirements of international documents, despite the fact that they had not been ratified. Certain decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States evidence the facts of development of national laws on the protection of children's rights. They include the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States adopted in 1988, 2005, 2010, 2012 and some other decisions. The first of them are the decisions on the unconstitutionality of the capital punishment and life imprisonment without the possibility of release for juveniles and persons, guilty in committing serious crimes. Consequently, the peculiarity of the US legal doctrine is its independent evolution without the ratification and implementation of international treaties, however, in reality, the United States cannot ignore global trends in the protection of children's rights
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