- One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime
- In a 2001 research study, 85% of domestic violence victims were women
- Young women ages 16 - 24 experience the highest rate of domestic violence -- 16 per 1,000 persons
- The costs of intimate partner violence annually exceeds $5.8 billion, including $4.1 billion in direct health care expenses, $900 million in lost productivity and $900 million in lifetime earnings
- Domestic violence has been estimated to cost employers in the United States $3 - $13 billion each year
- While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner
- It is estimated that 503,485 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year in the United States
- It is estimated that 25% of the workplace problems such as absenteeism, lower productivity, turnover, and excessive use of medical benefits are due to family violence
- A child exposed to the father abusing the mother is at the strongest risk for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next
- 40% of teenage girls ages 14 - 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend
- One of five female high school students reports being sexually or physically abused by a dating partner
- 90% of all family violence defendents are never prosecuted, and one third of the cases that would be considered felonies if commiteed by strangers are filed as misdemeanors (a lesser crime)
- sixty-three percent of all males between 11 and 20 doing time for homicide in America, killed their mother's batterer
- in a national survey of over 6,000 American families, 50% of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children
- men who have witnessed their parents' domestic violence are three times more likely to abuse their own wives than children of non violent parents, with the sons of the most violent parents being 1,000 times more likely to become wife beaters
- a comparison of delinquent and nondelinquent youth found that a history of family violence or abuse is the most significant difference between the two groups
- one-third of all female homicide victims are killed by husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends or ex-boyfriends
- almost 25% of pregnant women seeking prenatal care have been battered during pregnancy
