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Compare factors that impede adolescent girls and married women from leaving abusive relationships. Discuss this issue from the feminist theory viewpoint and the structural-cultural theory viewpoint.

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Leaving Abusive Relationships

Many women find it difficult to recognize abuse in a relationship, or to fight the abuse and most of all, to leave that relationship. According to Lyness (2013), 1 out of 11 girls in a relationship (dating) in high school fall into an abusive relationship. For some, the abuse is physical, for others, it's psychological and emotional and yet for some more, it's a combination of both. Lyness (2013) reports that among teens - the trauma and violence symptomatic to teen relationship abuse include: "unexplained bruises, broken bones, sprains, or marks; excessive guilt or shame for no apparent reason; secrecy or withdrawal from friends and family and
Avoidance of school or social events with excuses that don't seem to make any sense." Among married women, the need to stay is far more pronounced if they have children. Together with physical violence (Packota, 2000), "Emotional abuse is one of the most prevalent forms of abuse of women by their intimate partners and its damage is ...

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