DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FACTS

Adults

• In the year, 2001, more than half a million American women were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner.
• Women are seven to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner
• Around the world,at least on in every three women has been beaten,coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
• On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day.  In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner.  the same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.

Teenagers

• Approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner.
• In a national survey of more than 6,000 families, 50% of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children.
• In a study of eighth and ninth graders, 25% indicated they had been victims of dating violence, including 8% who disclosed being sexually assaulted. 

Children

• Slightly more than half of female victims of intimate violence lives in households with children under age twelve.
• Three in four women (76%) who reported they had been raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 said that a current or former husband, cohabitant partner, or date committed the assault.
• One study of 2,245 children and teenagers found that recent exposure to violence in the home as a significant factor in predicting a child's violent behavior.
• Men, who as children were exposed to their parent's domestic violence, are twice as likely to abuse their own wives than sons of nonviolent parents.

Workplace and Domestic Violence

• A study of domestic violence survivors found that 74% of employed battered women were harassed by their partner while were at work
• Homicide was the second leading cause of death on the job for women in 2000.
• More than 1 million women are stalked each year in the U.S., and over a quarter of them report missing work as a result of stalking.

Immigrant Women And Domestic Violence

• A recent sturdy in New York City found that 51% of intimate partner homicide victims were foreign-born, while 45% were born in the United States.
• Married immigrant women experience higher rates of battering that U.S. citizens because they may come from cultures that accept domestic violence or because they have less access to legal and social services that U.S. citizens.  Additionally, immigrant batters and victims may believe that the penalties and protections of the U.S. legal system do not apply to them-( this is incorrect.)
• A survey of immigrant Korean women found that 60% had been battered by their husbands.

The information provided was obtained from the following web site www.endabuse.org