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Submission Won't Stop Abuse

Christianity Today did an extensive study of battered Christian woman, and they found that two-thirds of these women believe that it was their Christian responsibility to endure their husbands' violence and that in so doing they would be expressing a commitment both to God and to their husbands. Fifty-five percent noted that their husbands had said that if they would only be more submissive, then the violence would stop. And one-third of these women believed their husbands, believing that their submission was the key to resolving domestic violence. It is not. It is not the key.

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