·        Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women. This is more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

·        In the U.S., every 9 seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten.

·        At least one in every three women has experienced being beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused during her lifetime around the world. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.

·        31,260 women were murdered by an intimate partner from 1976-1996.

·        Studies suggest that up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.

·        Nearly 1 in 5 teenage girls who have been in a relationship said a boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm if presented with a breakup.

·        Every day in the U.S., more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.

·        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. Source: Commonwealth Fund survey, 1998

·        Violence is the reason stated for divorce in 22% of middle-class marriages. Source: EAP Digest November/December 1991.

·        Women who leave their batterers are at 75% greater risk of severe injury or death than those who stay. Source: Barbara Hart, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1988.

·        Domestic violence victims lose nearly 8 million days of paid work per year in the U.S. alone.

·        Between 55 % and 95 % of women who had been physically abused by their partners had never sought help through private organizations, shelters, or the police.

·        The costs of intimate partner violence in the U.S. alone exceed $5.8 billion per year: $4.1 billion are for direct medical and health care services, while productivity losses account for nearly $1.8 billion.

·        Men who witnessed their parents’ domestic violence as children, were twice as likely to abuse their own wives than sons of nonviolent parents.

·        A child exposed to the father abusing the mother is at the strongest risk for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next. Source: "Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family", APA, 1996.

WHEN WILL IT STOP?