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not alone. There are people in your area and surounding
counties waiting to help you. Domestic Violence,
physical, mental or emotional, should not be tolerated.
If you or someone you know is being abused, call you
local police department or get help from one of the many
shelters listed here on this website. You are not alone.
You do not deserve to be hit, cursed, beaten, or pushed
around. Please seek help before it is too late.
1-800-799-SAFE
(7233) ***
1-800-787-3224
(TTY)
National Domestic Hotline One call summons immediate
help, in English or Spanish, 24 hours a day, seven days
each week. We also have interpreters available to
translate an additional 139 languages. The Hotline may be
reached toll-free by phone from all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
Canada
First Step Women's Shelter 1-800-465-3623 (Sioux Lookout,
Ontario) New Starts For Women 1-800-565-5368 (Red Lake,
Ontario) Kenora Family Resource Centre 1-800-465-1117
(Kenora, Ontario) Hoshizaki House 1-800-465-7221 (Dryden,
Ontario) Atikokan Crisis Centre 1-800-465-3348 (Atikokan,
Ontario) United Kingdom Women's Aid Federation of England
0117-963-3542 (Bristol) Scottish Women's Aid
0131-221-0401 (Edinburgh) United States National Domestic
Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)
1-800-656-HOPE
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Statistic.
More than three
out of every 100or 1.8 millionwomen had been
severely assaulted by male
partners or cohabitant (i.e., they were punched, kicked,
choked, beaten, threatened with a knife or
gun, or had a knife or a gun used on them) during the
preceding 12 months. Other estimates are
that higher proportions of women (between 8.5 and 11.3
women per 100) are abused by husbands
or boyfriends in the United States. 1
A minimum of 16 % of American couples experienced an
assault during the year they were asked
about it, and about 40% of these involved severely
violent acts, such as kicking, biting, punching,
choking, and attacks with weapons. 2
Nearly one out of eight of the husbands had carried out
one or more acts of physical aggression
against his wife during the 12 months preceding
questioning.
Nearly 2 in 3 female victims of violence are related to
or know their attacker.
About 1 in 3 of the attacks involving a weapon involve a
firearm.
About 1 in 3 of female victims of violence have been
injured as a result of the incident. 3
A 1993 national poll found that 34% of adults in the
United States report having witnessed a man
beating his wife or girlfriend and that 14% of women
report that a husband or boyfriend has been
violent with them. 4
In addition to the fact that women commit fewer homicides
than men do, a significant proportion of
partner homicides by women occur in response to the
partners aggression and threat.5
Of the 5328 women murdered in 1990, FBI data indicate
that more than half were killed by
someone they knew, about half or more of them by a
husband or boyfriend. 6
FBI Supplemental Homicide Report data from 1976-85
revealed 16,595 spouse homicides
accounting for 8.8% of all homicides reported during this
10-year period The risk of being killed by
ones spouse was 1.3 times greater for wives than
for husbands.7
From a sample of police incident reports used to examine
the magnitude and patterns of family and
intimate assault involving weapon use or threat, bodily
force, or verbal threat of assault in a defined
urban population during 1984:
More that half of the incident involved partners (spousal
and nonspousal), about a fourth
involved prior or estranged partners, and the remainder
involved family members and
relatives.
Fatal incidents predominantly involved handguns, and
nonfatal incidents most often
involved bodily force.
Data on prior police contacts suggest that family and
intimate assaults occur within a
context of repeated violence.
Firearm associated family and intimate assaults were 12
times more likely to result in
death than non-firearm associated family and intimate
assaults. 8
The prevalence of physical abuse is reported 4 times more
often when women are asked directly in
interviews than when they respond to questionnaires. 9
During the last decade, domestic violence has been
identified as one of the major causes of emergency room
visits by women. Different studies have found:
From 20% to 30% of the women who are seen by emergency
room physicians exhibit at least one or more symptoms of
physical abuse
one-half of all injuries presented by women were the
result of a partners aggression
more than one-half of all rapes to women over the age of
30 were partner rapes
10% of the victims were pregnant at the time of abuse
10% reported that their children had also been abused by
the batterer
86% of the victims had suffered at least one previous
incident of abuse & about 40% had previously required
medical care for abuse 10
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