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WHY HELP

  • 70% of the children of abused women are also physically abused, and 20% are sexually abused. The majority of abusive men were either abused as children or witnessed their mothers being abused.
  • The Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence and Public Health reports that domestic violence is the number one cause of injury to women in the United States—more than rapes, muggings and auto accidents combined.
  • According to the FBI, a woman is beaten in this country every 15 seconds.
  • Nationally, domestic violence kills over 3,000 women each year.
  • Every year domestic violence results in almost 100,000 days of hospitalization, almost 30,000 emergency room visits and almost 40,000 visits to a physician according to WomenKind, Inc.
  • The National Institute of Justice reports that domestic violence accounts for 15% of the total number of all crimes reported.
  • The American Medical Association reports that family violence costs the nation from $5 to $10 billion annually in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelter and foster care, sick leave and absenteeism.

Survivors Convicted of crimes

  • 75% of women in prison suffered severe physical violence by intimate partner during adulthood
  • 37% were raped before their incarceration
  • 93% of women convicted of killing an intimate partner wer abused by an intimate partner in the past
  • Of the 38 women convicted of murder and released between 1985 and 2003, not a single one returned to prison for a new crime with 3 years of release.