Legal Dynamics and Issues Affecting the Right to Family Life

The family is a microcosmic collective and the most fundamental and foundational unit of society, which performs organization functions, with resulting benefits or ramifications that either enhance or diminishes the level of dysfunctionality in society – depending on the state of affairs in the home. Thus, at the foundation level, societies are built by stable families – that being a reality that is advanced; or sabotaged by a host of factors that are intricately connected to the human rights and liberties of persons. Therefore, procuring the conclusion that the violation of human rights, and abusive practices have a severely damaging effect on families: That being a fact, which is unequivocally represented in case law bordering on the right to family life and factors undermining its advancement. Consequently, the sustainability, progress, and continuity of family life, can be sabotaged either by internal or external actors – that perpetrate abuse, violence, crimes, indecent assault, economic corruption, unlawful imprisonment and other vices that procure separation, instability, psychological trauma, economic ramifications, or other conditions that cause marriages to brake down irretrievably; or undermines the prospects of potential spouses being fit for the purpose/task of managing stable families in the future. Thus, leading to the conclusion that respect, protection, and fulfilment of individual rights is the foundational basis for creating an enabling environment for the formation and sustainability of stable families.