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Peer reviewedAguirre, B. E. – Social Work, 1985
Results of a statistical analysis of a study of battered wives in shelters indicated that the wives' economic dependence on their husbands almost always ensured that they would return to their husbands and that respondents who considered the shelters useful had a higher probability of returning to their husbands. (Author)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Financial Needs
