In
light of the tragic Susan Powell story http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-marriage-josh-susan-powell/story?id=15552031#.TzfnsCOQ2qs, I feel I need to share some
info. Please if you know of someone being physically or emotionally
abused or battered, help them to get out of that situation. Have them
call 1-800-799-SAFE or refer them to this website> http://www.thehotline.org/is-this-abuse/am-i-being-abused-2/
Here are some statistics/facts you should know about domestic violence. http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html
http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html
U.S. STATISTICS
Fact #1: 17.6 % of women in the United States have survived a completed
or attempted rape. Of these, 21.6% were younger than age 12 when they
were first raped, and 32.4% were between the ages of 12 and 17. (Full
Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence
Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,
November, 2000)
Fact #2: 64% of women who reported being
raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized
by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date.
(Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence
Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women
Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #3: Only about half of domestic
violence incidents are reported to police. African-American women are
more likely than others to report their victimization to police Lawrence
A. Greenfeld et al. (1998). (Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on
Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook. Washington DC: U.S. Department of
Justice. NCJ #167237. Available from National Criminal Justice
Reference Service.)
Fact #4: The FBI estimates that only 37% of
all rapes are reported to the police. U.S. Justice Department
statistics are even lower, with only 26% of all rapes or attempted rapes
being reported to law enforcement officials.
Fact #5: In the
National Violence Against Women Survey, approximately 25% of women and
8% of men said they were raped and/or physically assaulted by a current
or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date in their lifetimes. The
survey estimates that more than 300,000 intimate partner rapes occur
each year against women 18 and older. (Full Report of the Prevalence,
Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the
National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact
#6: The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study estimated that
between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or
attempted rape during their college years (Fisher 2000).
Fact #7: Men perpetrate the majority of violent acts against women (DeLahunta 1997).
Fact #8: Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually
assaulted. (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) calculation
based on 2000 National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice
Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice)
Fact #9: One out of
every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or
completed rape in their lifetime. (Prevalence, Incidence and
Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey, National Institute of
Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998)
Fact #10: Factoring in unreported rapes, about 5% - one out of twenty -
of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. 19 out of 20 will walk free.
(Probability statistics based on US Department of Justice Statistics)
Fact #11: Fewer than half (48%) of all rapes and sexual assaults are reported to the police (DOJ 2001).
Fact #12: Sexual violence is associated with a host of short- and
long-term problems, including physical injury and illness, psychological
symptoms, economic costs, and death (National Research Council 1996).
Fact #13: Rape victims often experience anxiety, guilt, nervousness,
phobias, substance abuse, sleep disturbances, depression, alienation,
sexual dysfunction, and aggression. They often distrust others and
replay the assault in their minds, and they are at increased risk of
future victimization (DeLahunta 1997).
Fact #14: According to
the National Crime Victimization Survey, more than 260,000 rapes or
sexual assaults occurred in 2000; 246,180 of them occurred among females
and 14,770, among males (Department of Justice 2001).
Fact
#15: Sexual violence victims exhibit a variety of psychological symptoms
that are similar to those of victims of other types of trauma, such as
war and natural disaster (National Research Council 1996). A number of
long-lasting symptoms and illnesses have been associated with sexual
victimization including chronic pelvic pain; premenstrual syndrome;
gastrointestinal disorders; and a variety of chronic pain disorders,
including headache, back pain, and facial pain (Koss 1992).Between 4%
and 30% of rape victims contract sexually transmitted diseases as a
result of the victimization (Resnick 1997).
Fact #16: More than
half of all rapes of women occur before age 18; 22% occur before age
12. (Full Report of the Prevalance, Incidence, and Consequences of
Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against
Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #17: In 2000, nearly 88,000 children in the United States experienced sexual abuse (ACF 2002).
Fact #18: About 81% of rape victims are white; 18% are black; 1% are of
other races. (Violence Against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
Fact #19: About half of all rape
victims are in the lowest third of income distribution; half are in the
upper two-thirds. (Violence against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
Fact #20: According to the Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS), a national survey of high
school students, 7.7% of students had been forced to have sexual
intercourse when they did not want to. Female students (10%) were
significantly more likely than male students (5%) to have been forced to
have sexual intercourse. Overall, black students (10%) were
significantly more likely than white students (7%) to have been forced
to have sexual intercourse (CDC 2002).
Fact #21: Females ages 12 to 24 are at the greatest risk for experiencing a rape or sexual assault (DOJ 2001).
Fact #22: Almost two-thirds of all rapes are committed by someone who
is known to the victim. 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a
non-stranger (— 38% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the
victim, 28% were an intimate and 7% were another relative.) (National
Crime Victimization Survey, 2005)
Fact #23: The costs of
intimate partner violence against women exceed an estimated $5.8
billion. These costs include nearly $4.1 billion in the direct costs of
medical care and mental health care and nearly $1.8 billion in the
indirect costs of lost productivity and present value of lifetime
earnings. (Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the
United States, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2003).
Fact #24: Domestic
violence occurs in approximately 25-33% of same-sex relationships. (NYC
Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, October 1996.)
Fact #25:
Boys who witness their fathers' violence are 10 times more likely to
engage in spouse abuse in later adulthood than boys from non-violent
homes. (Family Violence Interventions for the Justice System, 1993)
Fact #26: An estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into
the United States annually for sexual exploitation or forced labor.
(U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 2000)
Fact #27: Somewhere in
America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15
seconds. (UN Study On The Status of Women, Year 2000)
Fact #28:
A University of Pennsylvania research study found that domestic
violence is the leading cause of injury to low-income, inner-city
Philadelphia women between the ages of 15 to 44 - more common than
automobile accidents, mugging and rapes combined. In this study domestic
violence included injuries caused by street crime.
Fact #29:
Following the Supreme Court's decision in 2000 to strike down the
civil-rights provision of the Federal Violence Against Women Act (ruling
that only states could enact such legislation), only two states in the
country (Illinois and California) have defined gender-based violence,
such as rape and domestic violence, as sex discrimination, and created
specific laws that survivors can use to sue their perpetrators in civil
court. (Kaethe Morris Hoffer, 2004).
Fact #30: A study reported
in the New York Times suggests that one in five adolescent girls become
the victims of physical or sexual violence, or both, in a dating
relationship. (New York Times, 8/01/01)
GLOBAL STATISTICS
Fact #31: At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to
be alive are "missing" from various populations, mostly in Asia, as a
result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide or neglect. (UN Study On
The Status of Women, Year 2000)
Fact #32: Globally, at least
one in three women and girls is beaten or sexually abused in her
lifetime. (UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2/28/00)
Fact
#33: A recent survey by the Kenyan Women Rights Awareness Program
revealed that 70% of those interviewed said they knew neighbors who beat
their wives. Nearly 60% said women were to blame for the beatings. Just
51% said the men should be punished. (The New York Times, 10/31/97)
Fact #34: 4 million women and girls are trafficked annually. (United Nations)
Fact #35: An estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the sex trade each year (UNICEF)
Fact #36: A 2005 World Health Organization study reported that nearly
one third of Ethiopian women had been physically forced by a partner to
have sex against their will within the 12 months prior to the study.
(WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against
Women, 2005)
Fact #37: In a study of 475 people in prostitution from five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia):
62% reported having been raped in prostitution.
73% reported having experienced physical assault in prostitution.
92% stated that they wanted to escape prostitution immediately.
(Melissa Farley, Isin Baral, Merab Kiremire, Ufuk Sezgin, "Prostitution
in Five Countries: Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" (1998)
Feminism & Psychology 8 (4): 405-426)
Fact #38: The most
common act of violence against women is being slapped—an experience
reported by 9% of women in Japan and 52% in provincial Peru. Rates of
sexual abuse also varies greatly around the world—with partner rape
being reported by 6% of women from Serbia and Montenegro, 46% of women
from provincial Bangladesh, and 59% of women in Ethiopia. (WHO
Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against
Women, 2005)
Fact #39: So-called "honour killings" take the
lives of thousands of young women every year, mainly in North Africa,
Western Asia and parts of South Asia. (UNFPA)
Fact #40: The
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that 2002 saw a 25%
increase in “honor killings” of women, with 461 women murdered by family
members in 2002, in 2 provinces (Sindh and Punjab) alone. (Pakistan
Human Rights Commission, 2002)
Fact #41: More than 90 million
African women and girls are victims of female circumcision or other
forms of genital mutilation. (Heise: 1994)
Fact #42: In eastern
and souther Africa, 17 to 22% of girls aged 15 to 19 are HIV-positive,
compared to 3 to 7% of boys of similar age. This pattern—seen in many
other regions of the world—is evidence that girls are being infected
with HIV by a much older cohort of men. (UNICEF/UNAIDS 2007)
Fact #43: : A 2005 study reported that 7% of partnered Canadian women
experienced violence at the hands of a spouse between 1999 and 2004. Of
these battered women, nearly one-quarter (23%) reported being beaten,
choked, or threatened with a knife or gun. (Family Violence in Canada: A
Statistical Profile, 2005)
Fact #44: In Zimbabwe, domestic
violence accounts for more than 60% of murder cases that go through the
high court in Harare. (ZWRCN)
Fact #45: a study in Zaria,
Nigeria found that 16 percent of hospital patients treated for sexually
transmitted infections were younger than 5. (UNFPA)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/
http://endabuse.org/content/news/detail/1092/
http://www.rainn.org/statistics
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/sxasault.asp
www.thehotline.org
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