DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE
Domestic Violence Statistics
- By the most conservative estimate, each year 1 million women suffer nonfatal violence by an intimate.
- By other estimates, 4 million American women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.
- Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually 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 of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.
- The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking, and homicide by intimate partners exceed five point eight billion dollars each year.
- The prevalence of domestic violence among Gay and Lesbian couples is approximately 25 - 33%.
- Battering among Lesbians crosses age, race, class, lifestyle and socio-economic.
Each year, between 50,000 and 100,000 Lesbian women and as many as 500,000 Gay men are battered.
- Domestic violence is statistically consistent across racial and ethnic boundaries