Facts About Abuse

Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and thus is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death. The consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and truly last a lifetime. (When Men Murder Women Report. Violence Policy Center, September 2010)

 

• Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.

• One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. (Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and  the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, "Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey," (2000).)   

• Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults. (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Intimate Partner Violence in the United States," December 2006.)

 

• 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)
   

 

       

 Sistercare Domestic Violence Service Statistics 2010  

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                             *  2010 Service Stats.doc