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Brenda Branson (Hanson, Kentucky) Copyright © 2004  The answer given in the 1920s to this question was that battered women were of low intelligence or mentally retarded.  In the ’40s it was determined that women did not leave because they were masochistic.By the ’70s the experts claimed that a woman stayed in an abusive situation because she was isolated from friends and neighbors, had few economic resources, and was terrorized into a state of “learned helplessness” by repeated abuse.Experts spent time, energy, and government grants studying women and their problems, and by asking “why do women stay” they managed to […]