 | Approximately 4 million American women are severely assaulted by their male partners at least once each year.
-Novella, Antonia C. 1992. "From the Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service." Journal
of the American Medical Association, 267 (23), p. 3132 |
| Domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women, exceeding automobile accidents, sexual assaults and muggings combined. -Stark, Evan and Anne H. Flitcraft. 1991. "Spouse Abuse" in Violence in America: A Public Health Approach, pp. 123-157. New York: Oxford University Press.
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| It is estimated that every nine seconds an American woman is beaten by her intimate partner. -First Comprehensive National Health Survey of American Women. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, July 1993.
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| A woman is 75 percent more likely to be murdered when she attempts to leave or has "successfully" left an abusive relationship, than when she stays. -Hart, Barbara.
1989. "National Estimates and Facts About Domestic Violence," NCADV Voice, Winter 1989, p. 12. |
| Forty-two percent of murdered women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends; 6,000 women are murdered annually as a result of escalating domestic violence.
-Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reports, 1988-91. Analysis by the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. |
| Between 22 percent and 35 percent of emergency room visits by women result from domestic violence.
-American Medical Association Committee. 1992. Archives of Family Medicine, Vol. 1, pp. 39-47.
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| Forty-seven percent of men who beat their female partners do so three or more times a year.
-Ibid. |
| Rape is a significant form of abuse in at least 54 percent of marriages where violence has been reported. -Ibid. |
| Victims of domestic violence across socio-economic groups are usually dependent on their batterers for their own and their children's economic survival. In one study, 34 percent of battered women had no access to
checking accounts. Fifty-one percent had no access to charge accounts and 21 percent had no access to cash. -Follingstad, D. R. 1990. Journal of Family Violence, 5 (107), p. 113.
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| The FBI reports that 95 percent of the perpetrators of domestic violence are male.
-Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unifonn Crime Report. |
