Statistics
Source: Women's Action Coalition Statistics, 1993
In over 95% of domestic assaults, the man is the perpetrator.
At least 60% of battered women are sexually abused by their partners.
70% of men who batter their wives, sexually or physically abuse their children.
Violent juvenile delinquents are 4 times more likely than other youth to come from homes in which their fathers beat their mothers.
Children who witness domestic violence are 5 times more likely to become batterers or victims in their adulthood.
A study of a woman's prison found that 40% of the inmates incarcerated for murder or manslaughter had killed partners who repeatedly assaulted them. These women had sought police protection at least 5 times before resorting to homicide.
There is violence in 21 % of relationships.
15-20% of pregnant women will experience domestic violence during pregnancy.
8% of women in the USA are battered during pregnancy. Such women are twice as likely to miscarry and 4 times more likely to have low birth weight infants and their infants are 40 times more likely to die in the first year of its life.
1 in 4 women worldwide experience domestic abuse at some point in their lives.
Many victims of domestic abuse will have suffered at least 35 beatings before ever making any formal report.
Last Updated: 2005-03-07
