Do lawyers respond to the effects of Covid-19 on domestic violence?
The abominable mess created as an upshot of the pandemic COVID-19 viz joblessness, business losses, reduced activities, and social isolation has pushed the extreme tendencies in human beings out in the open. Worldwide, this has resulted in a serious concern over domestic circles, with women and children in particular, prone to harassment and abuse and men riding roughshod over. This was never foreseen as an outcome as governments were planning for social distancing, lockdowns to ward off the COVID-19 pandemic effects taking away precious human lives. By and large, governments have, all over the world, fell between two stools in handling the unanticipated situation. The worst of the effects were reflected as domestic violence resulting in increased cases of divorce cases all around the world including the US. Nevertheless, family law and criminal law exists, the newly changing scenario to protect women in their homes need to be assimilated and addressed in the relevance of societa...