Battered Women’s Syndrome Battered Women Syndrome, also known as BWS, is a mental disorder that develops in victims of domestic violence as a result of serious, long-term abuse. This syndrome makes the victims who have been abused to be depressed and makes them feel that they are not capable of leaving the abusive relationship. Battered Women Syndrome was first discovered in the 1970’s by Dr. Lenore Walker. It was found only upon the clinical observations of Dr. Lenore Walker. BWS became popular when they tried to justify the criminal conduct of women who had gotten charged with the murder of their husband. You can easily identify anyone who is victim of Battered Woman Syndrome. You notice that they have symptoms like fearing for their
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Battered Woman Syndrome happens to all kinds of women, no matter what their race, religion, age, etc. Generally the victims of BWS are women around the age of twenty through twenty-four. They are most likely to be murdered by their abusive partner. In the world there are over fifteen-hundred shelters for battered woman syndrome victims. About every fifteen seconds in the US one woman is being beaten by their partner. Around 25-45% there are women that are being abused while they are pregnant. Most of these domestic violence incidents are not reported. When a woman that suffers from BWS, she often share the same features of other victims. Some of these features are Taking full control of the assault and start to find it hard or difficult to accuse her abuse. She feels that this situation is not safe for her being. The woman logically believes that her abuser is too powerful and will beat or kill her if she tries to reach authorities and or seek help from others. There are 4 stages cycle that occur in BWS. The First stage cycle is denial. In this stage, the woman doesn’t want to admit to having an abusive relationship, not to even herself that she has a problem with her relationship. She refers to her husband’s incident an accident. She tends to always have a reason to why her husband abuses her every time and she believes that it’ll never happen
Battered Woman Syndrome happens to all kinds of women, no matter what their race, religion, age, etc. Generally the victims of BWS are women around the age of twenty through twenty-four. They are most likely to be murdered by their abusive partner. In the world there are over fifteen-hundred shelters for battered woman syndrome victims. About every fifteen seconds in the US one woman is being beaten by their partner. Around 25-45% there are women that are being abused while they are pregnant. Most of these domestic violence incidents are not reported. When a woman that suffers from BWS, she often share the same features of other victims. Some of these features are Taking full control of the assault and start to find it hard or difficult to accuse her abuse. She feels that this situation is not safe for her being. The woman logically believes that her abuser is too powerful and will beat or kill her if she tries to reach authorities and or seek help from others. There are 4 stages cycle that occur in BWS. The First stage cycle is denial. In this stage, the woman doesn’t want to admit to having an abusive relationship, not to even herself that she has a problem with her relationship. She refers to her husband’s incident an accident. She tends to always have a reason to why her husband abuses her every time and she believes that it’ll never happen