Despertai! de 8 de novembro de 2001 afirmou que a Bíblia ‘does not oblige a battered wife to stay with a man who jeopardizes her health and perhaps her very life’, que o que ela faz ‘is a personal decision’, e que ‘no one should coax a wife to leave her husband, but neither should anyone pressure a battered woman to stay with an abusive man when her health, life, and spirituality are threatened’. Disse também que algumas mulheres ‘may need to seek assistance from the authorities’. No mesmo parágrafo, cita 1 Coríntios 7:11 no sentido de que a esposa que se separa deve ‘remain unmarried or else make up again with her husband’.

Awake!, “Help for Battered Women”

8 de novembro de 2001 · pp.8-12 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Should the battered wife leave her husband? The Bible does not treat marital separation lightly. At the same time, it does not oblige a battered wife to stay with a man who jeopardizes her health and perhaps her very life. The Christian apostle Paul wrote: “If she should actually depart, let her remain unmarried or else make up again with her husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:10-16) Since the Bible does not forbid separation in extreme circumstances, what a woman does in this matter is a personal decision. (Galatians 6:5) No one should coax a wife to leave her husband, but neither should anyone pressure a battered woman to stay with an abusive man when her health, life, and spirituality are threatened.”

The article is one of a series on violence against women. It describes coercive control and financial control, tells readers to listen with compassion, says on p. 9 that some battered women ‘may need to seek assistance from the authorities’, and states that a man who mistreats his wife ‘does not qualify for special privileges in the Christian congregation’ and may be disfellowshipped. The paragraph is quoted whole, including the sentence restricting remarriage, because that restriction is the material point for a reader deciding what to do.

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