Domestic Violence: signs and statistics
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Issue date: 1/27/10 Section: News
Signs of an abusive relationship
• Engage in name-calling, insults, or continual criticism. Demonstrate a lack of trust and/or possessive behaviors, attempt to isolate the abused from friends and family, may monitor phone calls, texts, e-mail, or other forms of correspondence.
• Push, slap, kick, choke, or commit other acts of violence.
• Prevent the victim from leaving the home, calling police, paramedics or other forms of assistance.
• Force the victim to have sex or perform sex acts against his or her will, or ignore the victim's feelings regarding sex.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1?800?799?SAFE (7233) or TTY 1?800?787?3224
Domestic violence statistics
• One in four American women report that a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives has physically abused them.
• 90-95 percent of domestic violence victims are women, and as many as 95 percent of domestic violence perpetrators are men.
• 30 percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
• It is estimated that 71 percent of rape or sexual assault victims knew their offenders. Approximately 22 percent are raped by intimates.
• 3 million American children are exposed to domestic violence at home each year.
• When women are killed by their husbands, children are present in 25 percent of cases.
Source: Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
• Engage in name-calling, insults, or continual criticism. Demonstrate a lack of trust and/or possessive behaviors, attempt to isolate the abused from friends and family, may monitor phone calls, texts, e-mail, or other forms of correspondence.
• Push, slap, kick, choke, or commit other acts of violence.
• Prevent the victim from leaving the home, calling police, paramedics or other forms of assistance.
• Force the victim to have sex or perform sex acts against his or her will, or ignore the victim's feelings regarding sex.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1?800?799?SAFE (7233) or TTY 1?800?787?3224
Domestic violence statistics
• One in four American women report that a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives has physically abused them.
• 90-95 percent of domestic violence victims are women, and as many as 95 percent of domestic violence perpetrators are men.
• 30 percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
• It is estimated that 71 percent of rape or sexual assault victims knew their offenders. Approximately 22 percent are raped by intimates.
• 3 million American children are exposed to domestic violence at home each year.
• When women are killed by their husbands, children are present in 25 percent of cases.
Source: Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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