The notion of abandonment refers to the act of leaving aside or neglecting any element, person or right that is considered the possession or responsibility of another individual. Abandonment can be used in the legal sphere or in different spaces and situations of daily life, with some of the possible abandonments being more serious than others.
If understood from a legal point of view, abandonment will always refer to the neglect of one person or an asset at the hands of another. In this sense, abandonment implies that another individual may suffer harm as a consequence of such an act of abandonment and therefore the situation must be resolved legally or judicially. When we talk about abandonment in this area, it generally refers to the abandonment that a parent can commit with their children, a responsible person with the person they must care for (such as a teacher with his student, a doctor with his patient ). The abandonment, however, may not always be physical but in many cases moral or psychological. In addition, the abandonment of property or personal property is also a situation to be judicially resolved since litigation must be carried out regarding the possible transfer of that property to a third party.
However, the term abandonment can be applied to a myriad of situations in which the legal point of view is irrelevant. In this sense, abandonment is understood as the simple putting aside elements or structures of thought, beliefs or feelings that had been present until that moment. In this sense, the abandonment of religious beliefs, ideologies or feelings towards a person are common phenomena for the human being and these do not necessarily imply that a crime is being committed or that the situation must be resolved legally.
