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Ferraro and Johnson (cited by Aulette) interviewed 120 battered women who passed through a shelter and asked them how they decided to leave the batterers.They found six factors that served as a catalyst for making the change.These include all of the following EXCEPT:


A) change in a woman's resources - getting a job or access to a shelter.
B) despair - the disappearance of hope that things would get better.
C) change in the level of violence - either increased abuse or a change they perceived as a threat to their lives.
D) support from the legal system - the arrests of their husbands and the judicial treatment of the battering as a crime.

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