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One out of every four American women (26%) report that they have been physically abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.

Leiberman Research, Inc.,
Domestic Violence Advertising Campaign Tracking Survey

While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.

U.S. Department of Justice,
Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998.

Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.

Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey, August 1995.

Thirty-seven percent of women who sought treatment in emergency rooms for violence-related injuries in 1994 were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend.

U.S. Department of Justice,
Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments, August 1997.

Among all female murder victims in 1995, 26 percent were known to have been slain by husbands or boyfriends.

U.S. Department of Justice,
Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998.

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