Domestic violence, also defined in the webster dictionary, as “the inflicting of physical injury by one family or household member on another”. According to the preliminary analysis of WHO’s (World Health Organization) global prevalence database, about 29% of Europe and Central Asia’s women claim they experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence during their lifetime. While 33% of women in Latin America and the Caribbean women also claim the same. All of this of course was shared information, what about the other women who were violated, but were too scared to share? If these women were too afraid to share their experiences, was there a legal reason? When it comes down to domestic violence, not many divorce their spouse afterwards.
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Jack Stapleton. There is not much information on Miss Stapleton’s background, we do not know if she moved to Europe because she married Mr. Stapleton or because she wanted to become a permanent resident. We can only assume that they fell in love, and Miss Stapleton moved to Europe for Mr. Stapleton, so they could pursue their relationship and get married. Culturally, Miss Stapleton was from an area that highly valued family unity. According to the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC), most couples were taught to avoid divorce as much as possible in order to truly keep the family together. Even if it was an abusive relationship, they were almost forced to just tolerate it. The NHMRC believes Central Americans (and even Latin Americans) have this mindset because of the strong Roman Catholic influence they have adapted. Roman Catholicism has also strongly influenced their societal views and even laws. In fact, many countries there are very slow at developing laws and changes. Divorce is actually considered a relatively new law, for it was not legalized until roughly the late 1900’s. Is that why Miss Stapleton didn’t want to divorce her husband? There is a strong possibility she knew divorce was illegal in her country, so she thought the same applied in Europe. However, was Miss Stapleton’s instinct correct? Or was Europe far more advanced than she had
Jack Stapleton. There is not much information on Miss Stapleton’s background, we do not know if she moved to Europe because she married Mr. Stapleton or because she wanted to become a permanent resident. We can only assume that they fell in love, and Miss Stapleton moved to Europe for Mr. Stapleton, so they could pursue their relationship and get married. Culturally, Miss Stapleton was from an area that highly valued family unity. According to the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC), most couples were taught to avoid divorce as much as possible in order to truly keep the family together. Even if it was an abusive relationship, they were almost forced to just tolerate it. The NHMRC believes Central Americans (and even Latin Americans) have this mindset because of the strong Roman Catholic influence they have adapted. Roman Catholicism has also strongly influenced their societal views and even laws. In fact, many countries there are very slow at developing laws and changes. Divorce is actually considered a relatively new law, for it was not legalized until roughly the late 1900’s. Is that why Miss Stapleton didn’t want to divorce her husband? There is a strong possibility she knew divorce was illegal in her country, so she thought the same applied in Europe. However, was Miss Stapleton’s instinct correct? Or was Europe far more advanced than she had