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... Why do they remain in abusive relationships even as the violence escalates? ...
When professional intervention does not occur, battering relationships escalate to the point of suicide or homicide. ...
BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME
The battered woman syndrome (BWS) is a summary term for the many social, psychological, economic, and physical variables threat tend to hold women in abusive relationships for extended periods of time. Learned helplessness arises in oppressive relationships from which the victims cannot easily escape. ...
I can and will terminate relationships that drag me down. ... New York, 1982
Violent Relationships, Information Plus, Wylie, TX 1995
Violent Relationships, Information Plus, Wylie, TX 1997
You Can Be Free, An Easy to Read Handbook for Abused Women, Ginny NiCarthy and Sue Davidson, Seal Press, 1989
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