Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another.
It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality, or educational background.
Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and thus is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control.
Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death.
The consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and truly last a lifetime.
1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime.
1 in 6 women have experienced an attempted or completed rape.
An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
Almost one-third of female homicide victims that are reported in police records are killed by an intimate partner.
Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.