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FBI statistics indicate that every 12 seconds a woman is beaten by her husband, boyfriend, or lover.

Battering happens to women of every culture, age, color, nationality and educational socio-economic level.

• Of the children who witness domestic violence, 60% of the boys eventually become batterers, and 50% of the girls become victims.
• Police officers spend at least 1/3 of their time responding to domestic violence calls.
• 64% of all women will be battered at some time in their lives.
• 60% of battered women are beaten while they are pregnant.
• 95% of all spousal assaults are committed by men.
• 81% of men who batter had fathers who abused their mothers.
• Children raised in violent homes are 74% more likely to commit assault.
• 6 million American women are beaten each year by their husbands or boyfriends. 4,000 of them are killed.
• 52% of female murder victims are killed by their partners.
• Battering is the single major cause of injury to women — more frequent than auto accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. It is the leading cause of emergency room visits by women.
• 1 in 4 female suicides were victims of family violence.
• Nine women in the U.S. Virgin Islands have died as a result of domestic violence since 1994