• Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
  (Heise, L., Ellsberg, M. and Gottemoeller, M. Ending Violence Against Women)
   

• South Carolina has the highest homicide rate in the nation of Caucasian women by intimate partners. African American women rank 5th in the nation for domestic homicide.
  (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 2001)
   

• Nearly one-third of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives.
  (According to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey)
   

• Women are five to eight times more likely to be victimized by an intimate partner.
  (Department of Justice, Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998)
   

• Women of all races are equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.
  (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey, August 1995)
   

• 25% of women who are beaten are pregnant

This material was adapted from a publication produced by the Family Violence Prevention Fund: www.endabuse.org.