Crimes against the family, youth and morality

The Constitution obliges parents to support and raise children until adulthood and adult able-bodied children to care for their parents. Serious breaches of these duties are protected by the Criminal Code as separate crimes. Evading the support of a minor or a person unable to work means failing, for more than two months in total, to pay money (such as aliment) that must be recovered under a court decision or order; evading the support of parents is likewise based on a court decision and its period is set by law. These crimes are deliberate, and the subject is a sane person aged 18 or over on whom a support duty was imposed by a court decision; in some cases administrative liability must already have been applied before criminal liability follows. Involving a minor in anti-social behaviour (begging, alcohol, drug use, committing crimes) is also a crime: the offender must know that the person is a minor, and liability becomes more serious if it happens at an educational institution or place where students gather, or involves several children.