October Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Domestic Violence Facts
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, meant to encourage support and participation
in domestic violence programs, awareness campaigns, materials, resources, and educational efforts. This month of observance is meant to address the victimization of women and women who have been involved in domestic violence, and build social intolerance towards domestic violence and the abuse that disproportionately affects women. Consider the following domestic violence facts in observance of domestic violence awareness month, and promote safe and respectful relationships.
Domestic Violence Facts: Shedding Light on Domestic Violence and Supporting Social Intolerance of Intimate Partner Abuse
The statistics are devastatingone in four women (25%) has experienced some sort of domestic violence in her lifetime85% of the victims of intimate partner violence are women (15% are men), according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief. Three out of four women, 75% know someone who has been a victim of domestic violence30% of women know another woman who has suffered domestic violence at the hand of a physically abuse boyfriend or husband in the past year.
Domestic Violence Facts
Every year, between 600,000 and 6 million women are victims of domestic violence, with women ages 20-24 at the greatest risk.
Separated and divorced women are at a greater risk for domestic violence and nonfatal intimate partner abuse.
Women of all races are equally vulnerable to domestic abuse and suffer violence from intimate partners.
Women with lower annual incomes (below $25,000) are at 3 times greater a risk of experiencing domestic violence than women who make over $50,000 a year, although women of all income and socioeconomic status experience intimate partner violence. Its important to consider that women with fewer resources are also less likely to report incidents.
Domestic violence health-related costs exceed $6 billion annuallyapproximately $4 billion for medical and mental health care, and $2 billion associated indirectly with lost wages and productivity.
Approximately 1 in 5 high school teens will be involved in an abusive relationship before graduation.
Only 20% of female victims of domestic violence seek help or assistancemost believe it to be a personal or private matter, some fear reprisal, and others want to protect the offender.
74% of US women who suffer abuse at home also experience abuse at their place of work, according to the Family Violence Prevention Fund study.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that approximately 20,000 workers are threatened or attacked in the workplace every year by their partner or spouse.
October Domestic Violence Awareness month is meant to promote awareness about dating violence, sexual abuse, stalking, as well as to encourage healthy relationships, communication, respect, and trust. To prevent domestic violence, well need to provide teenagers with a clear picture of a healthy, loving relationship. If teens recognize unhealthy relationship traits such as jealousy, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, and stalking earlier, they can then prevent abuse and violence before it starts.
Learn the domestic violence facts and become empowered. You have the ability to change how domestic violence affects females. Raise awareness and find out more about what you can do to prevent domestic violence and keep women safe at work.
*Fact Source: Dvrc-or.org
by: Erica Ronchetti
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