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Throughout history many women have been victims of domestic violence. Society considered men to be superior to women because men were always in power economically, legally, and religiously. This gave men the attitude that women were inferior to them. Men harm thei ....

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.... abuse’ may be penetrated by parents, siblings, step-parents, or live-in boyfriends or girlfriends of the abused child’s parent (Rosen 3). Battered women are defined as women that have been Victora 2 physically or emotionally abused by their husbands or families. These women suffer from many different types of domestic violence but the cause is just one— abuse. Abuse happens to many women but most of the time it is not reported to the police. "Abuse is an underreported crime, it is underreported for two reasons: a) it occurs in the privacy of one’s home where there are typically no witnesses aside from family member’s to detect and report i ....