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Fact Sheet
- 85% of batter's as
children watched domestic violence occur in their own homes and/or experienced
physical/sexual abuse themselves.
- 50% of all willful
homicides of females are committed by a past or present intimate partner
- 63% of all boys,
ages 11-20 who are arrested for murder, have killed the man who was
assaulting their mother
- 50% of the time there
is both child abuse and domestic violence in the same home.
- Battered women are
2 times more likely to commit suicide
- Juvenile delinquents
are 4 times more likely to "come from" abusive homes.
- Violent perpetrators,
in general, were raised in violent homes
- violence in the
bedroom(home) is the root cause of violence in the street
(American Psychological Association, 1984)
- In 1973, the Police
Foundation in Washington D.C conducted a study of family violence in
Kansas City, MO. They found that:
- In 90% of the
family homicides, the police had been to the home at least once
prior to the homicide.
- In 50% of the
family homicides, the police had been to the home five or more times
prior to the homicide.
- In 1989, the San
Diego Police Department analyzed the sixty family violence homicides
that had taken place from 1985 through 1988. They found that the average
number of police calls to the home where the homicide was committed
was 8
- Every 15 seconds,
an act of domestic violence occurs in the United States
20% of all murders (4,000+ each year) in the United States are Domestic
Violence related.
- 95% of all domestic
Violence assaults are committed by men.
- 21% to 35% of all
women who use the emergency room services at hospitals have been battered.
- 25% to 30% of all
females who are battered are pregnant.
- The March of
Dimes reports that more babies are now born with birth defects as
a result of a mother being battered during pregnancy than from the
combination of all the diseases and illnesses for which we immunize
pregnant women.
- Battering is the
single major cause o injury to women. More frequent than auto accidents,
muggings and rape combined.
- Women in the United
States are in nine times more danger in their own homes than they are
in the street
- Children who have
witnessed abuse or who have been abused themselves are 1000 times more
likely to abuse a spouse/partner or a child when they become adults
than are children raised in a non-abusive home (Strauss)
- In a three year study
of 146 children between the ages of 11 and 17, 62% of the boys over
14 years of age were injured when they attempted to protect their mothers
from attack.
- 80% of runaway children
are from violent families
- Children need only
to witness their mother's abuse to take on delinquent and violent behavior.
In 1985 a study by the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services found
that children growing up in violent homes had a six times greater likelihood
of attempting suicide, 74% greater chance of committing crime against
a person and were 24 times as likely to have committed rape.
- In Oregon, fully
68% of the delinquent youths in treatment programs had witnessed their
mother's abuse/or been abused themselves
There are over 3800 animal
shelters in the United States, but only 1200 shelters for battered women
and children.
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