Susan Forward. Men who hate women and the women who love these men (№ 275160)

The woman who yields to the violence of the husband is in the victim role and behaves more like a helpless child than an adult. She refuses from the sphere of adulthood, transmitting her completely husband. Thus, next to the children is only one adult - their father. As we have seen, the father can bring on intense fear. When the mother refuses as an adult, it deprives children not only strong figure of the mother, but protection from the father.