Domestic Violence
Why do abused women tend to stay with their abusers? What are the realities for those abused women -- and how do the realities impact the treatment of battered women? This paper delves into those questions and issues.
Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women who Stay
An article in the peer-reviewed journal Social Work points out that while there have been plenty of articles and a great deal of information in recent years -- so that the public is more aware of the problem of battered women than in the past -- that additional knowledge has "proved useful" in dramatizing the problem but in addition it has "created new myths and injustices" (Peled, et al., 2000). One of the realities that result from the additional publicity about battered women is that women who stay in relationships with their batterers are seen as a "deviant group" -- which is unfortunate and does not help the problem (Peled, 9).
Another reality that is well-known by the public -- and contributes to the belief that the battered woman who stays is deviant -- is that some battered...
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