Saving the family: Reasons why battered wives stay.
What is abuse? Webster defines it is as to use wrongly or improperly; to treat in a
harmful or injurious manner. Defining wife abuse or wife battering is not easy. For starters, whom are we thinking of when we use the word wife? In fact, any woman who maintains an intimate relationship with her husband could become a battered or abused wife. The words abused or battered which are used here do not refer to the normal conflict and stress that occur in all close relationships, but rather to the violence that can cause serious injury and death. For battered women, home is a place of greater danger than public places more dangerous than the workplace, more dangerous than the highway, more dangerous than city streets, physical abuse consists of anything that one person do to another that causes physical pain. So why do people stay in an abusive relationship? The reasons may not be acceptable to everyone but according to mental health experts, there are specific reasons why people stay in an abusive relationship. To many onlookers it seems simple; if a woman is being abuse, she should just get up and go, or throw her abuser out. A woman may feel that being separated is wrong and that she should keep her marriage together at all cost. They may be abused but for sake of their children theyll do everything. Therefore, battered wives prefer to stay just to save her family and feels that her children need a father. This paper presents the discussion on Saving the family: Reasons why battered wives stay. The first part tells about the behavior of a battered wife on how they react