Lenore Walker,an advocate of an individualistic or therapeutic model explaining battering,maintains that girls are socialized to behave in a passive,helpless matter while boys learn to take advantage of such girls.Walker labels this phenomenon as

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Learned helplessness is the term Lenore Walker uses to describe the phenomenon where individuals, due to continuous exposure to adverse conditions they believe they cannot change, learn to act in a passive or helpless manner. This concept is applied to explain how societal socialization can lead girls to accept and not resist abusive situations, thinking they cannot alter their circumstances.

Lenore Walker,an Advocate of an Individualistic or Therapeutic Model Explaining