The aim of this paper is to find out and disseminate the knowledge about domestic violence and its importance in the modern age. The paper first explains the concept of domestic violence, why this concept is complex and that all forms of violence exist, how domestic violence is legally determined in the United Kingdom, the Nordic countries, Bulgaria and Hungary. Then, the legal framework for domestic violence in Croatia contained in the Criminal Code and the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence, as well as certain straightforward regulations of international law. By phenomenology as a discipline we study the distribution, structure and movement of the forms of violence in the family. There are statistical indicators of the movement of criminal offenses at the expense of children and families and the movement of the number of offenses under the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence. A review was made of what has been done but also what can be done to further the sanction of perpetrators but also to increase the dose of security from domestic violence. To conclude, we are told what we can learn from the legislative framework of the countries concerned, with regard to domestic violence, where the advantages and disadvantages of our legislative framework are, and what we need to take further to research in order to know in what direction we are going to change.