did you know?

*One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime?

*An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year

*Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults

*Less than one-fifth of victims reporting and injury from an intimate partner sought medical treatment following an injury

*One in six women and one in thirty-three men have experienced an attempted or completed rape

*Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police

*On average, more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States

*275 million children worldwide are exposed to violence in their home

(source: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Safe Haven Ministries)

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