·        1 in 4 women in California will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.

·        An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.

·        Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.

·        In California 134 homicides resulted from intimate partner violence in 2006. 110 of the victims were women, 24 were men.

·        Violence perpetrated against women by intimates is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior. Women whose partners were jealous, controlling, or verbally abusive are significantly more likely to report being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by their partners.

·        About 6 in 10 female and male victims of intimate partner violence who are injured did not seek professional medical treatment for their injuries.

·        About 85% of victimizations by intimate partners in 1998 were against women.

·        60% of female homicide victims were wives or intimate acquaintances of their killers.

·        1 in 5 female teenagers experience physical or sexual dating violence.

·        Girls experiencing physical and sexual dating violence were 4-6 times more likely to become pregnant than non-abused peers. They were 8-9 times more likely to have attempted suicide in the previous years than non-abused peers.

·        25% of teens reported they knew at least one person who had been physically struck by a person they were dating.

·        9% of girls and 6% of boys have already experienced some sort of dating violence before they reach the 9th grade.

·        A study of nearly 2,000 8th and 9th grade students revealed that 35.5% of dating adolescents reported being a victim of at least one nonsexual dating violence act, and 10.7% of these students had been a victim of at least one sexual dating violence act.

Statistics references from National Coalition Against

Domestic Violence (#1-4)& CALCASA 2008 Report (#5-13).