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11 Facts About Domestic And Dating Violence

Domestic/dating violence (also known as intimate partner violence) is a pattern of controlling behaviors that one partner uses to get power over the other. It includes:
- any kind of physical violence or threat of physical violence to get control
- emotional or mental abuse, such as playing mind games, making you feel crazy, or constantly putting you down or criticizing you
- Sexual abuse, including making you do anything you don’t want to do, refusing to have safe sex or making you feel badly about yourself sexually
85 percent of domestic violence victims are women.
One third of American women and one quarter of women worldwide will experience domestic/dating violence in their lifetime.
An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
Only 25 percent of all physical assaults perpetuated by intimate partners are reported to the police.
Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk for of nonfatal intimate partner violence.
Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women – more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.
One half of all homeless women and children in the US are fleeing from domestic violence.
Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten.
In 70 to 80 percent of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder.