Battered Womans Syndrome
This is how it happens: inside a quiet room, behind a closed door, a man calls a woman a “slut” and a “whore.” He tells her that she is too fat or to sexy, that she is “a poor excuse for a mother,” a worthless piece of dirt that only he can love. In public, when she smiles at the grocery clerk, he flies into a jealous rage. When she comes home minutes late, he grills her about where she’s been. One day, he slaps her face. The next time, he slams her head against a wall or drags her across the rug by her hair, his children pleading, “Daddy, please don’t hurt her.” Then, when it’s over, he gets down on his knees. “I’m so sorry, baby,” he says. “You’re the only one I can talk to. I’ll kill myself if you leave.” Quivering with shame and fear, she relents. And one day, perhaps after she has finally tried to break off the relationship, she ends up dead. It happens to 1,400 to 2,500 women in America each year (Berry 9). Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) is a serious problem for women today. It should not be seen as just an excuse for women to murder their husbands. The Encyclopedia of Violence in America defines Battered Woman Syndrome as “a form of post-traumatic stress disorde
child abuser to prison in turn sentence a battered and beaten woman, who in the same sense is much like that child, to a life sentence for protecting herself and perhaps her children? a way to not accept responsibility for a premeditated murder or for hiring a hit man, so that they can get a lighter sentence. But what about the majority of women out there who really did commit murder in the name of self-defense? Should they not be able to present their case in their defense? Absolutely not, if we exclude this type of defense we would be sending a woman to jail for a crime, which she honestly had no choice but to commit. r (PTSD), in which a traumatic experience—in this case repeated abuse by one’s partner—produces intense fear and feelings of helplessness in the victim” (Gottesman and Brown 3: 465). Many of the women today who have been found guilty of murdering their husbands are sitting behind bars with a charge of voluntary manslaughter while they serve a life long sentence. The fact that these women had been living under the same roof with their worse enemy for years while enduring horrible abuse from the man that they once loved until they could take it no longer mean nothing in our court systems. How can the same judge who sentences a Just recently I watched an episode of the Maury Povich talk show where there was a woman on who had nearly been killed in the middle of the night by her husband beating her with a hammer against her head. After several blows and her blacking out now and then, he came in with a knife to stab her. Then her 6-year old son came out of his room and saw his mother lying in a pool of blood. The husband was trying to stab her when she somehow found enough strength to kick his leg, which made him fall and stab himsel
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