• Between 3 and 4 million women are battered each year. 85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female. (American Institute on Domestic Violence -http://www.aidv-usa.com/Statistics.htm. Retrieved 12/03/02)
• Women age 20 - 34 endure the highest rates of domestic violence. (American Institute on Domestic Violence -http://www.aidv-usa.com/Statistics.htm. Retrieved 12/03/02)
• Nearly 2 in 3 female victims of violence were related to or knew their attacker. (Ronet Bachman Ph.D., U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Violence Against Women: A National Crime Victimization Survey Report," January 1994, p. iii)
• Almost 6 times as many women victimized by intimates (18%) as those victimized by strangers (3%) did not report their violent victimization to police because they feared reprisal from the offender. (Ronet Bachman Ph.D., U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Violence Against Women: A National Crime Victimization Survey Report," January 1994, p. 1)
• Annually, compared to males, females experienced over 10 times as many incidents of violence by an intimate. On average each year, women experienced 572,032 violent victimizations at the hands of an intimate, compared to 48,983 incidents committed against men. (Ronet Bachman Ph.D., U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Violence Against Women: A National Crime Victimization Survey Report," January 1994, p. 6)
• Battered women seek medical attention for injuries sustained as a consequence of domestic violence significantly more often after separation than during cohabitation; about 75% of the visits to emergency rooms by battered women occur after separation (Stark and Flitcraft, 1988).
• About 75% of the calls to law enforcement for intervention and assistance in domestic violence occur after separation from batterers. One study revealed that half of the homicides of female spouses and partners were committed by men after separation from batterers (Barbara Hart, Remarks to the Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, April 1992)
• Over 1,750,000 workdays are lost each year due to domestic violence (American Institute on Domestic Violence -http://www.aidv-usa.com/Statistics.htm)
• Domestic violence in the United States costs an estimated $67 billion annually.(American Institute on Domestic Violence -http://www.aidv-usa.com/Statistics.htm)
• 47% of men who beat their wives do so at least 3 times per year ( Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey (NCJ-154348) August 1995, p. 3.)
• Each year, an estimated 3.3 million children witness their mothers or female caretakers being abused (American Psychological Association, Violence and the Family: Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), p. 11. )
• 57 % of homeless families identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness.(The United States Conference of Mayors, A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1999, December 1999, p. 94.)

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