National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
-1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
-An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
-85% of domestic violence victims are women.
-Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.
-Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.
-Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.
-30% to 60% of
perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.
-In 70-80% of
intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder.
-The cost of
intimate partner violence exceeds $5.6 billion each year.
-1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.
