Think about it in real-life terms. Imagine that one of four of your women friends, relatives, and neighbors is a potential victim. Battering is the establishment of control and fear in a relationship through violence and other forms of abuse, and a series of behaviors including intimidation, threats, psychological abuse, isolation, and to coerce and control another person. Battering is the single most common cause of injury to women, more than muggings, auto accidents, and sexual assaults combined. Battering is also a criminal act of physical assault, battery, sexual assault, or other act that injures or kills another person in a relationship with the offender.
Abuse is about power and control.
More often than not, the abuse escalates in a relationship. There are many facets of this abuse, ranging from psychological abuse, to emotional abuse, to economic abuse, to sexual abuse, to physical abuse, to legal abuse, to death. Let's break this down for a minute. First of all, this is a question based on a myth that women do stay. Not all do.