FACTS & LINKS

• One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
• An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
• 85% of domestic violence victims are women.
• Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.
• Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.
• Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.
• Witnessing violence between one’s parents or caretakers is the strongest risk factor of transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next.
• Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.
• 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.
• Nearly 7.8 million women have been raped by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.
• one in three teenagers has experienced violence in a dating relationship
• Forty percent of teenage girls ages 14 to 17 say they know someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend.
• A survey of 500 young women, ages 15 to 24, found that 60 percent were currently involved in an ongoing abusive relationship and all participants had experienced violence in a dating relationship.
• Six out of 10 rapes of young women occur in their own home or a friend or relative's home, not in a dark alley.
• More than half young women raped (68 percent) knew their rapist either as a boyfriend, friend or casual acquaintance
• A survey of adolescent and college students revealed that date rape accounted for 67 percent of sexual assaults.
  
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