Violenţa în familie

All stages of history, both Antiquity and the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but especially the period of modernity, have known terrible episodes of violence, wars, conflicts and tragedies. In all Empires and in all religions of the world the phenomenon of violence is found between peoples, ethnic groups, provinces,aristocracies, nobles and slaves. Political, philosophical, literary, theological texts include, equally, the drama of this scourge of violence, even from the most sacred human space, that of the family. The Jewish texts of the Old Testament outline and reflect the limited value of all goods, placing above all these temporal values the very life of man. Thus, the need for its defense and preservation, imposing it through the 6th commandment of the Decalogue: “thou shalt not kill”. The Old Testament biblical writings show us models of thinking and doing embodied through the way of manifestation of the personalities that make up the holy history A sentence earlier, in the Decalogue, we find the imperative to honor the father and the mother. The care and concern for the parents is included in the 5th commandment, through the words: “Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you”. live many years on the land that the Lord your God will give you” (Isa. 20, 12). So, the prohibition to kill becomes the official civil and sacramental imperative of the entire legislative body of humanity can also be found in the Law of Talion from the text of Exodus, chapter 21. “If two men fight and strike a pregnant woman and she abandons the child or withoutany other injury, the guilty party shall submit to the compensation that the husband of the woman will demand and he he will have to pay according to the DECISION OF THE JUDGES (Exodus, 21, 22), “and for any other injury, then he must pay soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot...” Exodus , 21, 23‑24). Talion’s law “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, death for death...” – applicable to any bodily injuries introduces the idea of compensation: the one who causes an evil must suffer the same evil, having mainly a preventive purpose, to prevent the commission other facts of the same kind.