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Here are some shocking statistics about the prevalence of domestic violence:
•According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 1 in 4 U.S. women will experience intimate partner violence.
•Approximately 4.8 million intimate partner rapes and physical assaults are perpetrated against U.S. women annually (Findings from the 2000 National Violence Against Women Survey, National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
•According to the U.S. Surgeon General, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to American women.
•On average more than three women a day are murdered by their current or former intimate partners.
•Young women ages 16-24 have a higher incidence of partner violence than any other age group, almost triple that of the national average.
•Approximately 4.8 million intimate partner rapes and physical assaults are perpetrated against U.S. women annually (Findings from the 2000 National Violence Against Women Survey, National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
•According to the U.S. Surgeon General, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to American women.
•On average more than three women a day are murdered by their current or former intimate partners.
•Young women ages 16-24 have a higher incidence of partner violence than any other age group, almost triple that of the national average.
"The domestic violence movement was born out of Second Wave feminism in the 1970s," she says." so from the beginning, we've defined domestic violence as a women's issue, and I think that's left us with a gap, or blind spot, in our conceptualization of the problem. The information we have to date is very victim-centered: we know a lot about victim needs, how best to protect them, what the warning signs of abuse are."
"But that's leaving out the other major actor in these relationships -- the batterer. We don't know nearly enough about them, about their motives and needs. How can we hope to change batterer behavior if we don't fully understand it?"
"If you look at battery statistics across all groups -- gay, straight, men, women -- it's uniformly the case that men are much more likely to be the aggressors... So even when the sex of the victim changes, the sex of the likely perpetrator is still male. But although it's very apparent that men play a defining role here, we haven't managed to gather much useful information on them. I think that has to change if we ever want to get these incidence rates down."
"But that's leaving out the other major actor in these relationships -- the batterer. We don't know nearly enough about them, about their motives and needs. How can we hope to change batterer behavior if we don't fully understand it?"
"If you look at battery statistics across all groups -- gay, straight, men, women -- it's uniformly the case that men are much more likely to be the aggressors... So even when the sex of the victim changes, the sex of the likely perpetrator is still male. But although it's very apparent that men play a defining role here, we haven't managed to gather much useful information on them. I think that has to change if we ever want to get these incidence rates down."
Links to the stats are located at link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-bronstein/keep-calm-and-rape-a-lot-_b_2822508.html
Pretty interesting article. Lot of factoids and interesting points of view. Also, very disappointing, sad, and angering.
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