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Domestic Violence Facts Approximately 1.5 million women are physically
assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States.
Since many women experience multiple victimizations every year,
an estimated 5.9 million physical assaults are perpetrated against
U.S. women annually. A woman is battered every 8
to 10 seconds in the United States (3-4 million times per year) More women are injured from battering than mugging, auto accidents and rape combined. Each day, more than three women
in the United States are murdered by a male intimate partner Women are more likely to be
victims of homicide when they seperate from their husbands. 65%
of intimate homicide victims had physically seperated from the perpetrator
prior to their death. One-third of all police time
is spent responding to domestic violence disturbance calls. Twenty-five percent of all women seeking care in an emergency room for any reason is a victim of domestic violence. Thirty-seven percent of female patients treated in an emergency room for violent injury have been injured by their partners. As many as 17% of adult pregnant women are battered. The number of teenagers that battered during pregnancy may be as high as 21%. On average, Us medical schools require only two hours of training in adult domestic violence and less than half of family practice residencies require education about Intimate Partner Abuse. Thirty-one percent of female physicians and 14% of male physicians have personally experienced domestic violence. Thirty-one percent of nurses report that they or someone in their immediate families have experienced domestic violence. Rhode Island Domestic Violence Deaths From 1990 to 1999, at least fifty-nine Rhode Islanders
died as the result of domestic violence. Nine victims of domestic
violence were killed in 1999 alone. Of these nine fatal domestic violence-incidents, one was perpetrated by a current partner and the others by ex-partners The forty three perpetrators consisted of forty-one men and two women. Male perpetrators were responsible for fifty-six of the fifty-nine deaths over the past decade: 11 suicides and 45 murders. During Calendar year 1999, the
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence's six member agencies
provided community services for 8,299 unduplicated victims of domestic
violence. In 1999, Rhode Island's domestice
violence crisis hotlines received 19,719 calls for crisis intervention,
support and referrals. Police Departments responded
to 6,932 domestic violence calls in 1999. In 1999, 3,658 victism of abuse
obtained Temporary Restraining Orders. On any given day in Rhode Island,
52 people call a domestic violence hotline, 44 women and children
spend the night in a domestic violence shelter, and 34 people seek
community based domestice violence services. In 1998, police noted children
were present during 39% of reported causes of domestic violence
in Rhode Island. Children saw their parent being abused in 1,711
incidents and in 2,067 incidents heard their parent being abused.
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