Statistics on Domestic Violence

• A women is beaten every 15 seconds: between three to four million women are battered each year in the United States of America.
• Every day approximately 10 women are killed by their batterer.
• More than 50% of women in the United States have been battered at some point in their lives. More than one-third are battered repeatedly every year.
• In one study of more than 6,000 shelter residents in Texas, the battered women had, on average, contacted five different sources of help prior to leaving home.
• Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.
• The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year. Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care services, and nearly $1.8 billion are for the indirect costs of lost productivity or wages.
• In a national survey of more than 6,000 American families, 50 percent of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children.