- Family violence is the leading cause of injuries to women ages 15-44, more common than automobile accidents, muggings, and cancer combined.
(American Medical Association Study, Center for Community Solutions, 1997)
- Nearly 5.3 million intimate partner victimizations occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older. This violence results in nearly 2 million injuries and 1,300 deaths.
(National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003.)
- Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner. Of these, 96% were females killed by their intimate partners and 75% of those incidents occurred in the home.
(Violence Policy Center: American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. Washington DC: (US) May 2006)
- When updated to 2003 dollars, intimate partner violence costs exceed $8.3 billion, which includes $460 million for rape, $6.2 billion for physical assault, $461 million for stalking and $1.2 billion in the value of lives lost.
(Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein, E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter S. The Economic Toll of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. Violence and Victims 2004; 19 (3): 259-272. )
- Lost of productivity and earnings due to intimate partner violence accounts for nearly $1.8 billion annually.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, 2005)
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