Denmark has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention is thus binding upon the state of Denmark. In a national perspective, the principles contained in the Convention have almost only been addressed by the Danish legislature and not by the courts or administrative authorities. The Convention was not considered a priority in 2001, when it was being discussed which human rights conventions to incorporate into national Danish law. The general opinion was that the legal substance of the Convention was too unclear at the time. The incorporation is currently under (renewed) consideration by the legislature. Effectively, this means that presently children’s rights and the principle of the best interest of the child are not laid down as general principles but rather regulated differently in different fields of Danish law.