Unfortunately, domestic violence persists to plague America. To successfully protect ourselves, our friends, and our families, we must recognize the reality and prevalence of domestic abuse. EndAbuse.org provides many facts on their website. These are some:
- Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year.
- Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
- On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.
- Three in four women (76 percent) who reported they had been raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 said that a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date committed the assault.
Read more facts here: http://www.endabuse.org/resources/facts/
