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National Statistics

You may have seen some of these numbers before, but take a moment to really think about the overwhelming toll of domestic violence on the families, communities, and industries of this country.    

These statistics are provided by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, http://endabuse.org/resources/facts/, which gathered its information from various government agencies and research consortiums.

• Up to 3 million women are physically abused annually by intimate partners in the United States;
• Around the world, at least 1 in 3 women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime;
• Domestic violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001 in this country, women accounted for 85% of the victims of intimate partner violence (588,490) and men accounted for approximately 15%, (103,220 total);
• On average, more than 3 women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner;and,
• Rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners costs the medical and mental health system in this country $4.1 billion in direct costs each year.

Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.

Domestic violence is an issue in the South Asian community, as it is in all other communities. In one of the few studies conducted, researchers Anita Raj and Jay Silverman discovered that more than 40% of the 160 South Asian women living in Greater Boston they surveyed indicated that they were victims of intimate partner violence, and only 50% of women who experienced intimate partner violence were aware of services available to help.

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