Abuse

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problem is in only certain communities, but it can happen to anyone. Most domestic abuse comes from people they know. There are many facts about domestic violence. Forty-six percent of Americans continue to agree that men sometimes physically abuse women because they are stressed out or drunk. Usually men tend to take their emotional stress out on their partners. Men continue to tell their partners that they still love them after they already battered them. This makes the woman feel sorry for their husbands and it makes the women more intimidated to stay, rather than leaving because she feels bad. “Studies show that women are more likely to be understandable over a man” (Buss 10). This statistic proves that in a battering situation women won’t leave their husbands if they know they are suffering from emotional problems. Sometimes many women put their selves in a dangerous position by staying in an abusive relationship. This problem will continue to exist if women don’t realize what their husbands are putting them through. Some say that battering is only a momentary loss of temper, but it isn’t because battering is the establishment of control and fear in relationship through violence. Others say that domestic violence is just a push, slap, or punch...