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The Facts

Acts of domestic violence occur every 18 seconds in the United States.

More than one thousand emergency protective orders were filed in the Big Sandy Region in 2000. In addition, law enforcement responded to nearly 1,600 domestic violence related calls in Pike County.

About ½ of all couples experience at least one violent incident: in 1/4 of these couples, violence is a common occurrence.

95% of all domestic assaults are committed by men.

21% of all women who use the hospital emergency surgical services are battered.

1/3 of all female homicide victims are killed by their husbands or boyfriends.

6 million American women are beaten each year by their husbands or boyfriends. 4,000 of them are killed.

Battering is the single major cause of injury to women - more frequent than auto accidents, mugging, and rapes combined.

1 in 4 female suicides were victims of family violence.

Each year an average of 54,000 Kentucky women and children are forced to seek shelter from domestic violence.

Three-fourths of the victims of spouse-on-spouse assault were divorced or separated at the time of the incident.

Over 1 million women each year seek medical help for injuries caused by battering.

Victims of domestic violence are three times more likely to be victimized again than are victims of other types of crimes.

Children are emotionally traumatized by witnessing family violence; many of them grow up to repeat the pattern os victim or abuser.

While you were reading this, 4 women were severely beaten.