Although many maintain that less educated, unemployed, poor young women are more likely than others to be in abusive relationships, intelligent people let this happen too. In the Justice Department's survey of 1973-1992, women are about three times as likely as men to be victims of domestic violence. According to the survey, a women is abused every 15 seconds and four women are killed each day by their intimate male partners. Domestic violence has a long history. Social systems dating back for centuries have condoned and even encouraged men's violence toward their mates.
Modern societies are no exception.
Men continue to abuse the women with whom they are intimate in epidemic proportions. Sometimes the abuse is psychological, sometimes it is physical, but it is always devastating to the battered woman.