O abandono afetivo inverso e a responsabilidade civil advinda do desamparo

Abstract

The present end-of-course study aims to expose a social problem, namely, the Reverse Affective Abandonment, what it brought in family relationships, with the main focus on the reverse abandonment, where mercilessly the elderly are helpless and abandoned by their families. Bearing in mind that Affective Abandonment is not a financial issue, but one of affection, social and moral, of how one is loved and sheltered, or in this case, the lack of it. There is inverse abandonment when children abandon their ancestors in need of support, that is, in their old age. It is necessary to talk about the civil liability of children with respect to parents in old age, given that this issue of extreme importance and highly present in our daily lives, and little valued by society and the Judiciary, where one can see that there is the absence of commitment of children to care for their elderly parents and the duty of care compensating for the damage caused by the absence of affection and love.