Domestic Violence Nationally

Domestic Violence happens. It’s a sad fact of many relationships. The facts are devastating. This post will have some shocking stats but let’s put some real numbers to what we are talking about.

According the Silent Witness National Initiative:

• About one third of female murder victims were killed by an intimate.
• About 3% of male murder victims were killed by an intimate.
• Of all female murder victims, the proportion killed by an intimate declined slightly until 1995 when the proportion began increasing, although it has stabilized recently.
• Of male murder victims, the proportion killed by an intimate has dropped.

American women have more to fear from the men they know and once loved than from any stranger. (Jane Brody, New York Times)

A third of all women’s injuries coming into our emergency rooms are no accident. Most are the result of deliberate, premeditated acts of violence. And frequently they occur over and over until the woman is killed. (Dr. Kevin Fullin, American Medical Association, public service ad, Time magazine)

According to the American Institute on Domestic Violence:

• 85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female.
• Over 500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year.
• 5.3 million women are abused each year.1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner.
• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.
• Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by a stranger.

Next half hour:

Abuse in the SM Community

–luna

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