Responsible fatherhood: a sociological reflection on paternal abandonment

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on responsible parenthood and the phenomenon of paternal abandonment from a sociological perspective. The existence of this phenomenon is assumed, accompanied by a social invisibility: that it exists, but is not debated. In the final considerations, it is observed that the phenomenon of paternal abandonment has worsened since modern times, but there are traces of its existence since classical Greek antiquity, also serving as an alert to the need to remove this phenomenon of invisibility social life and to encourage ways of overcoming it.