The present article contributes to the discussions regarding the prerrogatives of paternity, under the aspect of valueing paternal functions, the limitation of rights and the affirmation of the paternal duties. A provocative polemic has been installed stemming from the eclosion of judicial demands in which children denounce the affective, psychic and moral abandon suffered from their fathers, claiming reparations for damages caused, all in court. Some of the children demand financial remunerations to compensate affective abandon. Others, claiming that a father can’t be forced to love or live with a child, oppose claiming for financial compensations. They state that, once living up to the function of providing alimony, a father would be exempt from his obligations towards the child. However, a person needs more than bread to survive...
fatherhood; emotional distress; affection as a juridical value; reparation