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- Estimates
range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year1 to three million women who are physically abused by their
husband or boyfriend per year.2
- The
health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking, and homicide by intimate partners exceed five point eight billion
dollars each year (CDC study).
- Around
the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.3
- Nearly
one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point
in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.4
- Nearly
25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner,
or date at some time in their lifetime, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted from November 1995
to May 1996.5
- Thirty
percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.6
- In
the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate
partner.7
- Intimate
partner violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001, women accounted for 85 percent of the victims of intimate partner
violence (588,490 total) and men accounted for approximately 15 percent of the victims (103,220 total).8
- While
women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men
to be victimized by an intimate partner.9
- In
2001, intimate partner violence made up 20 percent of violent crime against women. The same year, intimate partners committed
three percent of all violent crime against men.10
- Women
of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.11
- Male
violence against women does much more damage than female violence against men; women are much more likely to be injured than
men.12
- The
most rapid growth in domestic relations caseloads is occurring in domestic violence filings.
- Between
1993 and 1995, 18 of 32 states with three year filing figures reported an increase of 20 percent or more.13
- Women
are seven to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner.14
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