Last Updated: Monday December 17th, 2007

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The following statistics were provided by various resources

• Acts of Domestic Violence occur every 15 seconds in the United States.

• Women are more likely to be the victims of crime in their own home, at the hands of someone they know, than on the streets.

• About 50% of all couples experience at least one violent incident in their relationship. Approximately 25% experience violence regularly.

• Violence occurs in families of all races, genders, religions, social status, income levels and professions.

• 95% of domestic violence incidents are perpetrated by men.

• Every year, an estimated 2-4 million women of all races and classes are battered by a spouse or intimate partner in the U.S. alone. 4,000 are killed.

• Battering causes more injury to women than rapes, automobile accidents, and muggings combined.

• Almost 35% of women who visit emergency departments in the U.S. are there for symptoms related to on-going abuse.

• Every year, domestic violence results in almost 100,000 days of hospitalization, almost 30,000 emergency room visits, and almost 40,000 visits to a physician.

• Medical expenses from domestic violence total $3 billion-$5 billion annually.

• 50% of the homeless women and children in the U.S. are fleeing abuse.

• 65% of young men in the U.S. incarcerated for homicide are there because they killed the person who was beating up their mothers.