Which of the following may be a reason a person would have a difficult
time leaving an abusive relationship?
Not exact matches
More women die in the 18 months or so after
leaving a physically
abusive relationship than at any other
time in the cycle.
The point when a woman tries to
leave an
abusive relationship is often the most dangerous
time for her.
Perhaps, it's an unfulfilling job that we don't like, yet we don't want to
leave because it pays the bills; or maybe it's an
abusive and unhealthy
relationship that you have a hard
time getting out of, because your financial freedom depends on it...
At any given
time, more than half a million American children reside in foster care, and more than 800,000 children pass through the foster care system annually.57 Almost 30,000 young adults annually
leave foster care without achieving permanency in familial
relationships.58 Despite spending billions of dollars annually on in home child protection services for
abusive and neglectful families and foster care, 59 the effectiveness of standard child welfare services is largely unproven.
Following their
time at the shelter, the women were tracked for the next year: approximately one - third of the women did not return to their
abusive relationships, another one - third returned immediately after
leaving the shelter, and the final one - third returned eventually.