Spain now has one of the highest rates of divorce in Europe with 1 in 2.3 marriages ending in divorce. This equates to a marital break-up every 3.7 minutes. To make matters worse, Spain has a shocking domestic violence problem, which yet again came to a head when four women were killed by their partners on ‘Black Tuesday’ (26th February 2008). This brought to 17, the number of women murdered by their partners by the end of February 2008 setting that year firmly on target to exceed the horrors of previous years. Clearly, seismic changes are dangerously vibrating through Spanish society.
In fact, it is not surprising that tremendous pressures have been placed upon the old-fashioned, family values normally associated with Spain. Suppressed by the long, deeply conservative dictatorship of Franco (1939 – 1975), Spain remained in a time-lock throughout the heady decades of North European liberalism between the 1960s and 1980s. Flower power, the Pill, mobility of population and the sexual and social revolution of the First World largely bypassed Spain. Indeed, until 1981 it was not even possible to get divorced legally
Suddenly, in 1978, Spain established a secular constitution on lines similar to the rest of democratic northern Europe. This propelled the country into new uncertainties as previously unconscionable freedom and liberality were allowed. This was enhanced by unimaginable wealth as the country dramatically accelerated from its position as thirteenth biggest economy in the world in 1973 to its present position as eighth. All of a sudden, it was possible to get divorced, homosexuality was tolerated, incomes rose, personal expenditure increased and the equality of women became, at least in theory, acceptable...read more
http://www.culturespain.com/articles/on-the-rocks-divorce-and-domestic-violence-in-spain/
In fact, it is not surprising that tremendous pressures have been placed upon the old-fashioned, family values normally associated with Spain. Suppressed by the long, deeply conservative dictatorship of Franco (1939 – 1975), Spain remained in a time-lock throughout the heady decades of North European liberalism between the 1960s and 1980s. Flower power, the Pill, mobility of population and the sexual and social revolution of the First World largely bypassed Spain. Indeed, until 1981 it was not even possible to get divorced legally
Suddenly, in 1978, Spain established a secular constitution on lines similar to the rest of democratic northern Europe. This propelled the country into new uncertainties as previously unconscionable freedom and liberality were allowed. This was enhanced by unimaginable wealth as the country dramatically accelerated from its position as thirteenth biggest economy in the world in 1973 to its present position as eighth. All of a sudden, it was possible to get divorced, homosexuality was tolerated, incomes rose, personal expenditure increased and the equality of women became, at least in theory, acceptable...read more
http://www.culturespain.com/articles/on-the-rocks-divorce-and-domestic-violence-in-spain/
