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Battered spouse syndrome, also referred to as battered wife syndrome or battered woman's syndrome, is the physical and psychological condition of a person subject to repeated forceful, physical, or psychological abusive behavior by an intimate partner.
Ederlinda Fernandez, president of the Women's Studies Association of the Philippines and vice president for planning, administration and finance at the Western Mindanao State University, said Marifeh Titoh "is suffering from battered wife syndrome.
The social sciences have a term for the situation of women who feel compelled to be compliant with the men who are bent on demeaning and humiliating them: They call it battered wife syndrome.
The relationship between gays and Democrats is like battered wife syndrome.
It's the political version of the battered wife syndrome.
A man who kills his wife after finding her in bed with the milkman or a woman suffering from battered wife syndrome who finally snaps and kills her abusive husband may not even be found guilty of murder and if they are their sentence is likely to be in single figures in terms of years they serve.
He agreed that she showed signs of battered wife syndrome after years of abuse.
Justice Pitchford will sentence Edwards after considering a medical report that she may have been suffering from battered wife syndrome.
Battered wife syndrome is not recognised in the US where many women are sentenced without the jury ever hearing evidence of violence from their partners.
Where the battered wife syndrome is an issue in the case, the standard of reasonableness concerning an accused's belief in asserting self-defense is not objective, but subjective.
I'm satisfied you were suffering from, to use a colloquialism, battered wife syndrome and you felt isolated, hopeless and useless and felt there was no way out of the relationship.
There was evidence, the court heard, that Marley was suffering from battered wife syndrome.
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