Facts and Stats About Domestic Violence

Some general facts about Domestic Violence:

• Females were victims of 3 of every 4 intimate murders and 85% of the victims of non-lethal intimate violence.
• A woman is 9 times more likely to be attacked in her own home than in the streets.
• 25% of all female psychiatric patients who attempt suicide are victims of Domestic Violence.
• 85% of women in substance abuse programs are victims of Domestic Violence.
• Almost 80% of all serious injury and death occur when Battered women try to leave or after they leave.
• A third of all divorces are sought by women on grounds of physical cruelty.
• Battered women seek 50,000 orders of protection each week in the U.S. in an effort to stop violence.
• 40% of all homeless families in major cities are fleeing Domestic Violence.
• 50-70% of men who abuse women also abuse children.
50% of children in foster care are there because of Domestic Violence.
• 70% of child abuse is committed by the man of the house.
• There were over 4 million reported domestic assaults on women last year.
• 20% of those resulted in serious injury.
• Over a third of the women in hospital emergency rooms at any given time are there because of Domestic Violence.
• It costs 3-5 billion dollars a year to put these women back together.

• Lane County Statistics

• Oregon Domestic Violence Needs Assessment 1998

• National Statistics