The impact of the childhood link on the way criminal law is applied differs from one law to another and from one offense to another within the same statute. In each instance, the legislator's goal is to safeguard the family and prevent its dissolution while accounting for the many sociological quirks. The nature of the relationship that binds its members is what gives these crimes their specificity. In contrast to other bonds like brotherhood and marriage, which are mentioned in the Penal Code, we define the family bond in our study as the ties of marriage, paternity, and filiation because these two relationships have a major influence on criminalization, punishment, and procedural aspects.

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