Facts about Domestic Violence
**PROVIDED BY AAFPRS
· Domestic violence is a pattern of coercion that can include repeated battering and injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive social isolation, deprivation and intimidation
· Over five million women per year are affected by domestic violence in the United States, over one million victims require medical attention
· A woman is beaten every nine seconds in the United States by a current or former partner
· Seventy five percent of women who are in an abusive relationship receive battering to their face and head area
· Women are more often victims of domestic violence than victims of burglary, muggings or physical crime combined
· Women who leave their batterers are at 75 percent greater risk of severe injury or death than those who stay
· Forty two percent of murdered women in the United States are killed by their intimate partners
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