Every 9 seconds, a woman is beaten in her home and abusive relationships still claim more lives than rapes, muggings, or auto accidents together. 

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Shocking Statistics

American Institute on Domestic Violence
Every 9 seconds a women is beaten in the United States. Between 3 and 4 million women are battered each year. More secretaries were slain on the job in 1993 than police officers and bartenders combined.

Employers control the behavior of their employees by implementing certain tactics.

Just as with the relationship wheels, consider the behaviors as an overall approach rather than an isolated event.  For example, denying overtime or a training request is not, in and of itself, control-based.  However, in conjunction with other behaviors outlined in this wheel, this denial can clearly be viewed as an ongoing attempt to “let them know who is boss.”

For battered workers, this kind of “mismanagement” can be devastating.  Not only is the victim controlled by the abuser at home, but she is also subject to control tactics by her boss at work.

Minnesota Coalition for Batter Women
On average [in the United States], more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 1999, 1, 642 murders were attributed to intimates; 74 percent of the murder victims (1,218 total) were women.

Women Helping Battered Women
According to a 2000 UNICEF study, 20-50% of the female population of the world will become the victims of domestic violence.

Battered Women Who Kill
When women kill - and they do so at astonishingly lower rates than men who commit 85% of all homicides - the vast majority kill family members, usually men who have battered them for years. As many as 90% of the women in jail today for killing men had been battered by those men.

cybergrrl.com - General Facts About Domestic Violence
There are 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are 3,800 animal shelters (Schneider, 1990).  From 1983 to 1991, the number of domestic violence reports received increased by almost 117%. (NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, 1983 and 1991)

Domestic Violence Statistics
In fact, some researches estimate that one of every two women will be battered at some time in their life.

The victim in domestic violence is female in 85% of all cases reported.   She is white in 64% of domestic violence cases.  The average age of the offender is 31 years. (Uniform Crime Reports as cited by M.C. Moewe, "The Hidden Violence:  For Richeer and For Poorer,"  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Apr. 5, 1992)

Links to Sites of Survivors

Jane's Home a Save Haven Verbal abuse hurts too. (I know it too) 
She Walked Alone 15 years, out of 17, a living nightmare
Barbara's Page Compares the Viet Nam War to Domestic Violence
Domestic Abuse Section Great Hotline and Resource List.
 

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