How come battered women choose to stay in abusive relationships rather than just leave?
Some women do escape, are tracked down, and murdered by their present or former husband/boyfriend. Even if you leave, it doesn’t mean you’ll live. And often, the men threaten to kill the children if their partner leaves, and sometimes the batterers do kill the kids as well. It’s not as simple as leaving to get a cup of sugar. It’s a life and death decision for these women. We just had a case in NC of a woman who had taken out restraining orders against her husband she was separated from multiple times, but the sheriff refused to enforce it. She lived 2 blocks from the sheriff’s office. The husband came by and started digging a huge hole across the street from her. She found out he was digging her grave. She went to the sheriff, and once again, they couldn’t find her husband. The husband came back later, slashed her throat, and murdered her daughter. She crawled to the sheriff’s office and collapsed in his office, she nearly bled to death. Yep, leaving an abusive partner is a piece of c
Battered women stay for the same reason battered men stay in a relationship. Often they do not have any place else to go. We also need to know that there is a real domestic violence industry that creates problems where the so called “victims” do not see a problem. Although society is told that 95% of all abuse victims are women, unbiased research shows it is equal and in fact, the CDC has shown that 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women. When abuse is reported, the first thing the domestic violence advocates want is to force divorce even for minor problems. Most people do not want this. They want help to keep a relationship, not help to destroy it. I have had many women contact me to tell me that even when they accidently hurt themselves, they had people demand they admit their husband or boyfriend abused them. In fact something like this happened when my wife had a MEDICAL illness that mimicd stoke that someone called the police and asked for a saf
