Websites: why women stay in abusive relationships

[gbl]

Minnesota U.S. DV site:

http://www.letswrap.com/dvinfo/whystay.htm

With this, and more:

* What is Abuse?
* Why Women Stay
* Range of Behavior of Domestic Violence Survivors
* Types of Domestic Abuse
* Domestic Violence Safety Plan for Stalking
* Facts About Violence Against Mid-Life & Older Women
* Warning Signs
* Myths
* MN DV Statistics
* US DV Statistics
* The Effect on Children
* Characteristics & Talking To Men Who Batter
* The Power and Control Wheel
* Are You In Danger Quiz?
* Personal Safety With An Abuser
* General Guidelines for Leaving an Abusive Relationship
* Getting Ready to Leave
* Emergency Checklist
* After Leaving the Abusive Relationship
* Problems of Rural Battered Women
* Psychological Stages of Battered Woman Syndrome
* 12 Ways To Tell if He Will Batter
* Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence

[gbl]

Another site: http://stopviolence.com/domviol/whytheystay.htm

Some battered women are held prisoner in their own homes. Assailants use psychological terrorism and abuse to break down the victims' will to resist and bring them under control. A worthwhile model is the "Stockholm Syndrome", which describes how those who are taken hostage begin to identify with, become attached to, and take the side of their captors as survival reactions to life-threatening situations. Batterers employ knowledge gained in an intimate relationship to attack the woman's spirit, her sense of self worth and thus her ability to resist. Sexual abuse and domination are particularly degrading to the spirit and weaken the capacity to resist. Torture and murder of pets - particularly those special to the woman - is also not unusual.