“Battered women who resist abuse or fight back are more likely to be killed than those who suffer in silence” (Kastenbaum, 237). These women are more likely to get killed because they are scare of reporting their husband to the police authorities of their area. Moreover, our society has give men the power for controlling the lives of their wives and children. In Browne's study, it concluded that men who are killed by their spouse are kill because the husbands had threatened to hurt someone theirs wives cared for. In Bella case, her husband threated to kill their oldest daughter. This was when Bella realized that she could not take more abuse, and decided to kill her husband. Bella was permanetely disabled as a result of the many severe