Why Do Women Stay With Their Abusers?

Domestic violence is a form of oppression that occurs within a social context that makes violence against an oppressed group possible and even acceptable. Women are considered an oppressed group (McCue, M. L., 2008, p 5). Domestic violence is not limited to battery, it can be sexual and emotional abuse leading to physiological abuse. Physical violence is the act of causing physical pain or endangering one’s health. It can consist of slapping, choking, pinching, grabbing, burning, and so forth. Emotional abuse are things said or actions to belittle and mentally hurt someone, like mocking or bullying someone. Sexual abuse is forcing the other to commit sexual acts or participate in intercourse when they do not want to. Everyone endangers themselves to society everyday. There is
Society has reenforced that men are supposed to be the ones in control. the masculine ones, and the ones in power over the society biased, submissive women. The dying question most of society has is, Why do women stay with their abusers? Some women are intolerant to such violent behavior, some are naive, and some women are afraid. Some women stay with their male assaulters because they have provided them with a home, and/or a family. Mother’s do not want to break apart their family in hopes of it repairing or because of the financial stability. These men who find it so easy to abuse someone, can hold so much power over. They can be the ones who support the family, the one with the sense of security, leaving the women with no other place to leave. Some women believe that it is for the greater good to stay with a violent man instead of being alone because they do not want to be seen as devalued in