What do you think about Battered Woman's Syndrome?

Question

http://www.divorcenet.com/states/oregon/or_art02

http://www.divorcenet.com/states/oregon/or_art02

Answer 1

Complete and utter twaddle used by women to justify their poor choices.

If she doesn't want to be treated like that, perhaps a little thought into her choice of partner would be warranted. Even in cases where an honest mistake is made, if she isn't happy being treated that way, a woman should leave.

Women should take a little responsibility for their choices. No excuses, no "syndrome".

Answer 2

I don't just think, I KNOW, this is a real 'syndrome.' I feel very, very strongly about this and about the abuse that women go through. It has taken our state (Oregon) a very long time to recognize this 'syndrome' and to even have the police do anything when the men are reported abusing the women and children! It's the animals that seem to have more rights than the humans!! Now that is so sad! Right now, as far as I know, every city and county police is supposed to answer to every single call about abuse and do something about it. But, the reality is, so many of the officers WON'T do anything about it at all. So, many of the women go on continuing to be beat up, many put into the hospital, and many more ending up dead.

Try volunteering at a women's shelter for awhile (can only do this if you are a woman, tho) and you will see and hear a lot that you will never, ever forget. Volunteer at the hospital emergency room and you will eventually see many women who go in there after being badly abused by their men, but they refuse to say that it IS their man because they are scared that they will kill them--because that is what they have told their women!! They beat them down more than physically; it is also emotionally and mentally, and this is done way before the physical so that by the time the physical part comes along, they (the women) feel it is their fault and that they provoked it, caused it, etc. That could not be further from the truth, but it is what they have been led to believe, probably for many years.

It really irks me that many men do this (the statistics say that 95% of people abused are WOMEN; only 5% are men) and that the police and other authorities, and society and the communities, continue to let it happen, not report it, etc. There is much that friends, family, and neighbors can do; they just need to contact a local police station for the local women's shelters' phone number so they can get some information about it and what to do to help--and then actually help.

It also irks me that so many are ignorant about this subject. How about whoever it is that went through these answers and put thumbs down on pretty much ALL of them, on the ones that agree that Battered Women's Syndrome is real? That really gets me riled up!! How can people be so ignorant in a society like this--in the USA where EVERYONE is supposed to be free, and that includes WOMEN!!

Answer 3

These women, after being battered emotionally and/or physically ... truly believe that they don't deserve anymore, than what they are getting. Their minds have been brain-washed to think that they are worthless.

Battered Woman's Syndrome is real, it's sad and something has to be done to help these women. So many stay in these abusive relationships, for the mere fact that there is not any room for them (and their children) in the few women's shelters that exist. More money is spent on the care and education of the offenders, than the victims themselves. Despicable.

Answer 4

A justification for murder.

Hypocrisy city. If a woman can murder a man after repeated beatings, then wouldn't that give credibility to a man beating a woman who repeatedly nagged him?

Not only that, but it is discriminatory. With women battering their husbands at approximately equal rates (proven by mountains of studies), where's the battered men's syndrome?

This defence is also used in cases of premeditated murder. The woman claims battered wife syndrome and gets away with plain old murder.

Recently a woman rang Tom Leykis, a men's rights advocate, to brag that she had got away with murder due to battered wife syndrome:

http://www.blowmeuptom.com/archive.tl?h=57

Answer 5

I'm glad this has become considered something of a "real" syndrome-- something that can be proven. This will give battered women more power in court cases, I should think, possibly when custody of children is being decided.

Answer 6

I was asked once "Why do women stay in an abusive situation, why don't they just LEAVE?" The hard reality is that often times the unhealthy "familiar" is more frightening than the "healthy" unfamiliar alternative. It means stepping out of the familiar and into the unknown. God is the only one that can make "good" a "bad" situation. "Ask and ye shall receive..." Just make sure that if you really ASK....that you know how to LISTEN for the answers....because God always answers. Yes. No. or Wait awhile.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

equal rights should make a "battered woman" disappear but guess what every woman want equal rights until a guy smacks or hits her, I'm not being a smart a-ss or an a-ss. i mean even guys should hit guys but face it we live in the real world and women now should with equal right not use battered women anymore

Answer 9

I was once a battered woman. It took a lot to break the cycle.

Answer 10

It should really be called Battering Men Syndrome. It's the men who do it.