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Domestic Abuse Statistics
By Liza Cooper | October 11, 2009
The statistics on domestic violence are staggering and disturbing. Estimates range from 960,000 to as many as three million women who are abused by a current or former spouse or boyfriend in the course of a year. Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually 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.
On average, every day in this country, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.
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