The Catholic Tradition, its Influence in Shaping the Role of Women in the Traditional Colombian Family and its Relationship with Partner Violence Within

Abstract

According to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in its report Forensis 2017, Data for life, the facts of discrimination and violence against women in Colombia, have increased in recent years; This situation could be cataloged as a product of a society that has been shaped from the machista and patriarchal scheme that characterizes societies that have been influenced by traditions, such as the Catholic religion, which in some of the stories of their sacred texts seem to justify the condition of domination exercised by men over women. The Colombian State, which in its normative beginnings were influenced by this tradition, from the constitution of 1991 and through its subsequent regulations, has sought not only the vindication of women, but to punish the aggressors; However, these measures have not been efficient as long as the laws have not been able to guarantee women a true environment of security and respect for their fundamental rights. For this, it is necessary to intervene the configuration of the Colombian culture, in order to modify the cultural bases on which this imaginary social tradition that perpetuates the structure of domination and discrimination against women was built.