- Battered women report 4 million incidents of Domestic Violence yearly.
- 30,000 battered women go to hospital emergency rooms each year.
- Battered women seek 50,000 orders of protections each week in and effort to stop abuse.
- 35-40% of all homeless families in major cities are fleeing domestic violence.
- 70% of child abuse is committed by the man of the house.
- 70% of the child homicides in NYC occurred in households where the mother was also being abused.
- 60% of all female homicides are due to Domestic Violence.
- It cost 3-5 billion dollars a year in medical care to treat women of Domestic Violence.
- 70% of battered women report that their abusers also abused their children.
- 50% of all the children in foster care are there because of Domestic Violence.
- 85% of women in substance abuse programs are victims of Domestic Violence.
- 80% of all murders and serious injures are inflicted on women when they try to escape.
- A boy who grows up in a home with Domestic Violence, is 100 times as likely to be an abuser as an adult.
- 65% of pregnant teenagers are incest survivors.
- Domestic violence is a crime.
- Domestic violence occurs among all races, ages, and religious. It happens to people of all educational and income levels.
- Researchers estimate that 3 to 4 million women are beaten in their homes each year by their husbands or partners
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