Domestic Violence 5

Abstract

This research will bring to light one of the major factors related to divorce.   It will highlight the various forms in which domestic violence can occur, the cause and effect, statistics of both domestic violence and divorce.   It will provide recommendations and inform and educate persons of what is domestic violence, what one can do about it, and how it affects marriages that end or result in divorce.

Introduction

I choose to write this paper on domestic violence and divorces because I am a victim and a survivor of both domestic violence and currently in the process of a divorce.   My paper helped me to bring to the attention that the occurrence of domestic violence within a marriage do exist and sometimes ends fatal or by separation or divorce.   The paper will show the effects of domestic violence against women within a marriage and how it relates to marriages that end in divorces because of domestic violence among Caribbean people

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner, or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another.   Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse.   It occurs in all cultures, races, ethnicities and classes, religion and sex.

According to the Domestic Violence Act 1991 of 16th August 1991 (Act No. 10 of 1991).   Trinidad & Tobago Gazette, Pt. A, Volume 30, No.216, Legal Suppl., 23 August 1991, (pp. 87-109) stated that domestic violence is when the respondent has engaged in conduct of an offences or harassing nature in respect of a spouse, to the extent that the spouse is fearful or injury, physical or mental, to herself or himself, the court shall subject to make a protection order restraining the respondent from engaging in such conduct or any other conduct.

Domestic Violence can be traced back from our past, taken from Caribbean Sociology pg 507 which writes that a culture of violence resulting from undeniably violent past, from the migration and...