Team: Nurses Against Domestic Violence

Some Statistics  about Domestic Violence 

• On average , nearly 20 people per minute are victims of  physical violence by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of  physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.
• 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced  sever physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
• 1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have experienced stalking victimization during their lifetime in which  they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.
• On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls  placed to domestic hotlines nationwide.
• In domestic violence homicides, women are six times more likely  to be killed when there is a gun in the house.
• Intimate partner violence  accounts for 15% of all violent crime.
• Intimate partner violence is most common among women between the ages of 18-24.

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