Domestic Violence Fact 1

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Domestic Violence is the leading cause of serious injury to American women, more common than muggings and car crashes combined.

A woman is battered every 15 seconds in the United States.

Every year, between 2 and 4 million American women are battered by their husband's or boyfriend's.

At least 25% of domestic violence victims are pregnant when .

More than 1 in 3 Americans have witnessed an incident of domestic violence.

Nearly half of all incidents of domestic violence against women discovered in the National Crime Survey (48%) were not reported to police.

Children witness violence towards their mothers.

Violent youth are four times more likely to come from homes in which their fathers beat their mothers than are nonviolent youth.

Domestic Violence is repetitive in nature: about one in five women victimized by their spouse or ex-spouse they reports that had been a victim of a series of at least three assaults in the last six months.

Women are most likely to be murdered when attempting to report or to leave an abusive relationship.

Four women are killed everyday in America by a husband or boyfriend.

Forty-two percent of murdered women are killed by their intimate partners.

Source

The Central Task Force
on Battered Women
Providing Support and Resources for Victims
of Domestic Violence in Central