- Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15-44.
- Between 2,000 and 4,000 women are beaten to death each year in the U.S.
- One in three girls and one in five boys are sexually abused by an adult at some time during childhood. (Most sexual abusers are someone in the family or someone the child knows)
- One of every three abused children becomes an adult abuser or victim.
- The suicides of 20 percent of white women and 50% of black women are preceded by incidents of domestic violence.
- One in thirteen kids with a parent on drugs is physically abused regularly. (Drug and alcohol abuse in the family makes child abuse about twice as likely.)
- Victims and abusers are found in every social and economic class, race, religious group, and sexual orientation.
- 60 percent of all married women experience physical violence by their husbands at some time during their marriage.
- 68 percent of boys between the ages of 11 and 20 kill the man who has been beating their mother.
- 60 percent of battered women are also raped by their husbands.
- One out of ten babies born today are born to mothers who are abusing drugs. Drinking and smoking heavily during pregnancy also endangers the health of unborn children.
- More than 50 percent of the homeless women on the streets left home to escape beatings.
- 84% of prison inmates were abused as children.
- 80 percent of men who batter commit no other crime.
- One in ten calls made to alert police of domestic violence is placed by a child in the home.
Facts about Abuse
