Why Do Women Stay In Abusive Relationships

The writers research essay is going to be on women who are in abusive relationships. Abusive relationships meaning, two people who are exclusive but expressing unhealthy signs of a relationship. For example emotional, physical, and verbal abuse against one another. The writers focus will be on why women who are in abusive relationships don't leave. The writer will also cover reasons why women who do leave their abusive relationship and then come back. The writer believes that women stay in these relationships for various reasons, the writer will use a number of sources to support this belief. Women in relationships that result in an on going cycle of abuse often show symptoms of Battered Women Syndrome. The Battered Women Syndrome appear in women who are mentally and physically abused by their spouse over a long period of time and perceive the inability to escape. This model was developed by Dr. Lenore E. Walker to define the emotional state of a woman who proceeds to stay in an abusive
A saying used in support of this follow, “the man of the house.” In relation, that when the woman chooses to give her hand in marriage that is her way of accepting her duty as a wife; in other words, the role she must preserve as Carlson defines “provide the emotional warmth associated with motherhood while under the economic rule of the male.” It’s likely for women to not separate from their partner because of their culture’s influence. This has to do with how women are raised and depending on the woman; how much of their culture’s norm they have adapted too. Women who grew up in a family that consisted of abuse or have been abused as child do not have an internal sense, this makes it impossible for them to be physically violated. Therefore, they do not reach out for help nor react to the abuse because of how much of a normality it has become in their