AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL CRITERIA FOR CIVIL LIABILITY OF THE CHILD IN THE CASE OF REVERSE AFFECTIVE ABANDONMENT

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the emotional abandonment of the elderly. The topic is current and relevant to science and deserves special attention in the legal sphere, since the consequences of the lack of care for the elderly person, whether material or emotional, material due to the failure to provide for the Elderly's subsistence, and affective due to the lack of affection between the child and the elderly person, and a situation that causes pain and suffering to those involved, especially for the elderly person who is often in a vulnerable situation. The Federal Constitution of 1988, in its article 229 says: Parents have the power to assist, raise and educate their minor children, and older children have the duty to help and support their parents in old age, need or illness. And the Statute of the Elderly reaffirms the obligation of the family, community, society and public authorities, to guarantee the principle of human dignity to the elderly. Therefore, the analysis will be general of the food institute, its concept, its nature, its purpose and reciprocity in the maintenance obligation, based on different authors. Aiming to awaken children's nutritional and emotional obligation towards their parents when they cannot support themselves on their own.