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Persons and family relations mainly deals with the issues of family matters such as marriage, annulment and voiding of marriages, adoption, property settlements between spouses, parental authority, support for spouses and children, emancipation, legitimes (inheritance) of children from their parents and between relatives.
Across cultures the loss of a parent is consistently rated as one of the most difficult experiences that a child will endure. [7] In western countries, 5% of children will experience the loss of a parent. [8] [9] Across the world, the loss of a parent is seen as a significant life event for a child. [7]
The Family Code covers fields of significant public interest, especially the laws on marriage.The definition and requisites for marriage, along with the grounds for annulment, are found in the Family Code, as is the law on conjugal property relations, rules on establishing filiation, and the governing provisions on support, parental authority, and adoption.
Abandoned child syndrome is a proposed behavioral or psychological condition that is said to result from the loss of one or both parents.Abandonment may be physical or emotional; that is, the parent may abandon the child by failing to be present in their life, or by withholding affection, nurturing, or stimulation. [1]
However, the main focus of the monograph was on the more extreme forms of deprivation. The focus was the child's developing relationships with his mother and father and disturbed parent–child relationships in the context of almost complete deprivation rather than the earlier concept of the "broken home" as such. [3]
Many of the studies that have shown the negative effects of a father's absence on children have not taken into account other factors that potentially contribute such as the child's characteristics and relationship with the parents before the separation, the child's gender, and the family environment before the separation. [1]
When Jenny Lisk's husband Dennis died of brain cancer in 2016, the mom of two struggled to care for their children, 9 and 11, while managing her own grief.
A child's relationship with its parents has significant influence on the nature of social, psychological and emotional development of the child. [14] Empirical research also shows that disruption in relationship between child and its parents has adverse effects on a child's development. [8]