Domestic Violence Facts in Brief

 

• 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.

 

• 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, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.

 

• Nearly 25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their lifetime, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted from November 1995 to May 1996.

 

• Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.

 

For the complete factsheet visit: http://endabuse.org/resources/facts/