The Prevalence of Domestic Violence:

• It is reported than nearly 6 million women are beaten every year in the United States by a current or former intimate partner.
• One out of every four American women (26 percent) report that they have been physically abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives.  Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
• While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.
• Women are 7 to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner.

• About half of all female victims of intimate violence report an injury of some type, and about 20 percent of them seek medical assistance.
• Thirty-seven percent of women who seek treatment in emergency rooms for violence-related injuries are injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.
  

  Domestic Violence and Teens:

• Forty percent of teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend.
• About one in three high school students have been or will be involved in an abusive relationship.
• Teen dating violence most often takes place in the home of one of the partners.
• One in five dating couples report some type of violence in their relationship.
• One study found that 38 percent of date rape victims were young women from 14 to 17 years of age.
  

  Domestic Violence and Children:

• In a national survey of more than 2,000 American families, approximately 50 percent of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children.
•  Slightly more than half of female victims of intimate violence live in households with children under age 12.
• A young boy who witnesses family violence in his home is 700 times more likely to grow up and abuse his female partner.
  

  Rape:

• Three in four women (76 percent) who reported they had been raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 said that a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date committed the assault.
• Nearly one-fifth of women (18 percent) reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape at some time in their lives; one in 33 men (3 percent) reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape at some time in their lives.
  

  Stalking:

• Seventy-eight percent of stalking victims are women.  Women are significantly more likely than men to be stalked by intimate partners (60 and 30 percent respectively).
• Eighty percent of women who are stalked by former husbands are physically assaulted by that partner and 30 percent are sexually assaulted by that partner.