Loneliness.

Does not want to leave their children.

Has no place to go.

Lacks financial resources and employment skills.

Hopes their partner will change.

Does not know where, or how to seek help.

Fears reprisals from their partner. Is afraid of what the partner will do the them and their Children if they try to leave.

Is afraid to live without partner.

Believes children need a father and a mother.

Considers divorce a stigma: believes they have to keep the family together at all costs, despite the pain and danger.

Loves their partner.

Knows it's difficult for a parent with school-age children to find work.

Believe's it's shameful for them to admit they don't have good marriages.

Considers their partner a victim and wants to help.

Is blamed by society for their own victimization.

Believes they are at fault and they have no worth as a person.

Religious beliefs- Many battered victims have the impression that it is their "lot in life to suffer" or that "this was God's plan".

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