Failure to provide necessary food; a form of violence

Abstract

Colloquially, the right to food is understood as that subminister to nourish the body, however, in the legal world, we identify that it is that legal relationship that occurs between the maintenance creditor and the maintenance debtor, where an obligation to give is born, the latter will be obliged to provide the former with sufficient resources for their subsistence. This right is non-transferable, non-transmissible, unwaivable, imprescriptible, non-seizable, therefore, every child and adolescent deserve to be a creditor of the same, however, when one of the parents, in this case the one who is obliged to pay alimony, is late or does not pay, he/she would be violating the right. The violation is born, since the right is not only food, but also health, education, housing, recreation, clothing, however, if analyzed further, this irresponsibility would be causing a type of economic violence to the woman, because she is being controlled and withholding money, and no mother can justify not being able to provide something to her child because of the father's irresponsibility.