Walk Against Domestic Violence "With Awareness There is Hope"

Posted about 6 years ago by Yolanda Scipio-Jackson

Team: Nurses Against Domestic Violence

Some Statistics about Domestic Violence

On average , nearly 20 people per minute are victims of physical violence by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.
1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced sever physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have experienced stalking victimization during their lifetime in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.
On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic hotlines nationwide.
In domestic violence homicides, women are six times more likely to be killed when there is a gun in the house.
Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime.
Intimate partner violence is most common among women between the ages of 18-24.