The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of parents’ personality and their social distance toward Roma with children’s negative attitudes towards people of Roma ethnical minority. Also, effects which different types of contact may have on intensity of children’s attitudes toward Roma were explored. The study was conducted on the sample of 45 girls and 61 boys in the second and third grades of two primary schools in Varaždin area, and their parents, 76 mothers and 27 fathers. Half of the children, precisely 54 of them go to school together with Roma children, while the other 52 go to school without Roma children. In the study, photographs of white and Roma children were shown to girls and boys, and they had to answer 5 questions about people on these photos. After that, the Attractiveness scale was applied, and children’s task was to describe people on photographs by selecting positive or negative traits. In the end, the Social distance scale was applied, and children had to evaluate which contact are they prepared to have with different ethnic minorities. Parents also filled a Social distance scale, Right-wing authoritarianism scale and Big five inventory. The results showed that there is a significant difference in social distance toward Roma between children of two schools. Children who go to the same school with Roma children show significantly lower social distance toward Roma, than children from the other school do. Also, children who socialize with Roma and those children who have friends from Roma ethnic minority have significantly more positive attitudes toward Roma than children who go in the same school where Roma children go, but who are not socializing with Roma. Results show that neither parents personality traits and neither their attitudes toward Roma significantly explained children’s attitudes toward Roma. In fact, it is children’s contact with Roma which significantly explains their attitudes toward this ethnic minority.