As hard as this may be to believe, our problem today stems from the early Roman society where a woman was considered a piece of property and completely under her husband's control. If a man caught, or even suspected, his wife of participating in acts that put his honor or property rights in jeopardy he had the right, by law, to beat, murder, or divorce her (www.cji.net/clera.htm).

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The most prevalent reason that these women return to their abusers is because they are financially dependant on them. Also, most of these women have children and are afraid to leave with their children's lives at stake as well as their own. Welfare can sometimes be helpful to these women and is often used as an escape from these abusive relationships. Approximately 60% of the women who receive welfare have been victims of domestic violence (www.nowldef.org). The problem with these abused women being on welfare is that to receive this public assistance, it is often required that the women provide information about the paternity of her children. This can cause women to either endanger she and her children more than they already are, or be denied for the assistance that they need because the father of the children has a stable job (Brandwein, 1999, p.7).

The statistics are sad and disturbing. One out of every four women will experience abuse on a regular basis during the course of their marriage and 50% of all women will experience this abuse at least once during their marriage (Brandwein, 1999, p.3). These women who are victims of constant abuse will spend many cold and lonely nights in abuse or homeless shelters, which can sometimes be just as dangerous as their homes, just to go back to their abusers because they have no where else to go.

The statistics have gone down, but they are not low enough. We need to more in depth research to find out what works for these women and do more of it. Whatever the solution is we, as a society, need to find it and use it to the utmost degree.

The first place to start putting an end to women being abused would be society as a whole. This will not come quickly, but small changes over time will make a difference. The biggest problem is that there is still the general opinion that what goes on in one's home is no the business of others. When neighbors hear a women being beaten by her husband, they usually just turn up their television and try to put it out of their minds (Roberts, 1996, p.169). This needs to stop. There is also still a large social stigma to any women who leaves her spouse, whether she is abused or not (Roberts, 1996, p.169). People need to have more open minds when it comes to these women and realize that there may be a good reason that she is venturing out on her own.

The manners in which the men maintained control over women began to dwindle in Britain around 1967 when a group of 500 women and children walked with a cow (brought as a representation of their cause and to draw attention) through town to support their views against violence toward women (Dobash

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