The biggest problem in the haitian family is the arrange marriage started from early 1980's by both parents for men from overseas (diaspora)making it difficult for local men to get a women.
Here the general process: there was no love from the bigining, no courtship; for example a girl would drop out from school, come to live with the man 's parents and become their slave.
The man would come to marry the girl and spend only a few weeks and go back to where he came from, and get the girl to come in america after a long wait, she become pretier and look younger, she start seing things differently and people do change.
Since there was no foundation of love now what to expect?
I have a cousin in haiti, her husband left for over 22 years now and yet to return to his wife and five children, the sad thing is that his has another woman and kids with him in america.
Some men would use a fault birth certificate to get marry, after the honeymoon, they are gone for ever. Right now 90% in my parish are still practising this thing and I even witness relatives play the groom role in weeding ceremonies for their brothers absence and the pastors encourage it just for the money.
these are just few examples of thousand cases that I know for sure. There would be no safety for haitian women until they open up their eyes and rebuke the arrange marriage thing that gives more power to men, abuse from men and in-laws, cause them to have a divided family where husbands are gone forever, children growing up without fathers'love and presence, contribute to their unloyalty with no husband on their side to protect them. Therefore Haitian women are not safe now than before.
