Introducing Family Violence and it’s inherent violation on Equality
- Garcia- Windsor P.C.
- Jun 10
- 1 min read
June 10, 2025
Whether one defines a family pursuant to a legal definition such as the one provided for in the Texas Family Code, or a personal definition such as one including friends not living in the same dwelling, a family provides safety in the form of physical, psychological and emotional stability that all human beings need or crave.
Under a best-case scenario, family violence robs the victim’s trust resulting in his or her unjustly shattered stability. Putting the pieces back together is an up-hill battle that requires support from others. In cases of continuous family violence, recovery is increasingly difficult.
Family violence takes place in the form of intentional overt or covert physical, psychological, emotional and sexual assault resulting from the perpetrator having overreaching power over his or her victim; therefore, inequality and the abuse of power, inter alia cause family violence.
Abuse is not new, and at least since the Magna Carta, it has been malum in se for one, without justification or excuse to assault another. The Declaration of Independence asserts that “all men are created equal,” a principle that today encompasses men, women, children, the elderly, immigrants, and the LGBTQ+ community. True justice and equality begin within the core of individual families, including those of Congress members and legislators alike. Reflecting on The Gettysburg Address, we must ask: Has this nation, "under God," truly experienced “a new birth of freedom”? Are we truly a “government of the people, by the
people, and for the people”? The time has come for the violence to end.
