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How many laws do we have in our country? Who can say even knowing half? Does what consequences that proliferation of standards with regard to democracy, institutions, human rights or development? Key questions these! Nobody knows how many laws exist in our Republic. Much less, no one will know how many legal rules are in force in Colombia. Moreover, the vast majority of citizens, including lawyers, don’t know, even, how many species of legal rules exist in our normative pyramid! Perhaps for that reason, all legal systems are based on the big lie, contained in the principle of: standard it is said to be known. Ignorance of the law doesn’t excuse, says our Civil Code, following the Latin tradition. It could not be otherwise, because admitting otherwise would give the fret with the rule of law itself. And the previous justification must add that of the immense amount of existing standards.

Quantity bordering on abuse and the disrespect! As there are so many rules, it is necessary to assume absolutely, without being able to prove otherwise, that us them all know! (presumption of law). This is known in the modern world as legislative inflation. (The most expressive say legislative diarrhea!). Precisely, it is called inflation because it produces the same consequences as the monetary: depreciated. Among more quantity of circulating standards less value have them, they are less appreciated, and cheaper. Also this phenomenon resembles any of the excess vehicles on our streets: cause exaggerated con, make us curse, irritate us, trying to pass above the sardinel. But by more desperate the long row does not flow. The same happens with excess standards: deadlock institutionality, raises transaction costs, efficiency makes it impossible, collaborates with corruption (laws excess corrupts the Republic, he said Tacitus), slows down development and makes you lose credibility in the democratic system.

Solutions? To the President of the Congress of Guatemala a sui generis occurred to him: a Commission of notable Jurists proposed to revise all laws of that country, to effect a selection to make the Congress repeal the inappropriate, in the opinion of that Committee, or those in conflict with other laws. Rather, regulating with another law legislative excess! It would be too much, isn’t it? But definitely the topic should be treated sooner or later our State. No doubt the similarity of this solution with that of the economy: increasing the banking lace, for example, to reduce the circulating medium. In the discussed case is necessary to reduce the number of standards and prevent future proliferation of them, starting with the constitutional. But we can’t stop there. It is necessary, above all, to strengthen and modernize our administration of Justice, giving it new powers for the interpretation, and agile mechanisms integration and application of law. It is necessary, also, to be resourceful in the adoption of new procedures to resolve conflicts and, finally, is forced to introduce legal education of our children.

According to lawyers, psychologists, educators and other professionals who are dedicated to addressing the difficulties of divorce in the world, the former spouses of several countries demonstrate its readiness to attenuate the difficulties for children due to his divorce. A relevant fact in this aspect is that, according to the book between two worlds: the lives of children of divorce, Elizabeth Marquardt, Interior even in friendly divorces, children suffer more isolation and feelings of being divided between two families. However, there are those who do not agree with this assertion and say that it would also be more appropriate to make a comparison of: how would things for the children of a divorce if their parents had not been married. Despite this, the author of the book think that parents with moderate conflict (without violence, insults, etc.) should go ahead. When the parents get married, your task is first to cope with conflicts.

When parents get divorced, becomes the work of their children give meaning to the two worlds, adds. Techniques so that the children overcome divorce strategies to help children overcome divorce include interactive Web sites where parents communicate among themselves and discuss through written messages. One of the pages is OurFamilyWizard.com, created in 2001 and serves to discuss scheduling and costs of education of children, for example. It includes features that allow you to apply for exchanges of days with children and maintain a log of expenditure. This site is used by more than four thousand parents, with up to 150 new accounts each month, according to its creator Paul Voler.

Another strategy are classes taught by Jayne A. Major, at Los Angeles parent educator and who receives people sent by the family court. Major teaches the program of innovative offspring, that teaches couples separated or divorced to minimize their conflicts. Husbands and wives often attend different sessions, in which highlight unpleasant aspects that arise within the marital discord.