Abandono afetivo: órfãos de pais vivos

Abstract

This paper will address aspects regarding the emotional abandonment in family relationships, analyzing the breach of duty and consequent violations of guarantees of children and adolescents. The issue of civil liability that may be imposed on negligent parents will be analyzed, as in the case of dismissal of family power. This analysis takes into account the fact that the emotional abandonment is not only related to parents who live away from home, but also to those parents who live under the same roof, but delegate their company to nannies, child care centers or relatives. The emotional abandonment is one of the most serious forms of violence that can be perpetrated against the human being. It is a distinguished, lasting, coward and silent form of violence, and those who suffer it may be called "orphans of living parents". On the topic, the important bill 700/2007, proposed by Senator Marcelo Crivella and recently approved by the Human Rights Commission of the Senate will also be discussed, as well as doctrines and positive jurisprudences about the subject referred above. Finally, studies of psychologists will clarify the resulting generated problems, which harm one of the basic principles of Brazilian law, the principle of human dignity.