• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women ages 15-44. ¹
• There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the United States as there are shelters for battered women and their children. ²
• 37% of women who sought treatment in emergency rooms for violence-related injuries in 1994 were injured by an intimate partner.³
• Nearly 1 in 3 adult women experience at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood.⁴
• During the Vietnam War 58,000 American soldiers were killed.  During the same time, 51,000 American women were killed by the men who professed to love them.⁵
•  45% of battered women live in households with children under the age of 12.⁶
• Boys who witness their fathers' violence are 10 times more likely to engage in spouse abuse in later adulthood than boys from non-violent homes. ⁷
• 50% of homeless women and children are fleeing domestic abuse.⁸
• As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.⁹
• On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day.¹⁰
• Only about 15% of all domestic assaults are reported to the police.¹¹
• Female victims of domestic violence are 6 times less likely to report crime to law enforcement as female victims of stranger violence.¹²

¹ California Department of Health Services, Violence Against Women in California 1992-1999.
² Senate Judiciary Hearings, Violence Against Women Act, 1990.
³ U.S. Dept. of Justice, Violence Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments, August 1997.
⁴ American Psychological. Association. Report of the APA Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996.
⁵ American Medical Association, "Five Issues on American Health." Chicago 1991.
⁶ C.M. Rennison and S. Welchans , Intimate Partner Violence, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Washington , DC : 2000.
⁷ U.S. Dept. of Justice. Family Violence Interventions for the Justice System, 1993.
⁸ Sheehan Zorza, Joan. "Woman Battering: A Major Cause of Homelessness," in Clearinghouse Review, vol. 25, no. 4, 1991.
⁹ Gazmararian JA, Petersen R, Spitz AM, Goodwin MM, Saltzman LE, and Marks JS. “Violence and reproductive health; current knowledge and future research directions.” Maternal and Child Health Journal 2000: 4(2): 79-84.
¹⁰ Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003.
¹¹ Florida Governor's Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Violence, Florida Mortality Review Project, 1997, p. 3.
¹² American Psychological. Association. Report of the APA Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996, p. 10.