Help with Family Violence & Sexual Abuse Problems
Help with Family Violence & Sexual Abuse problems
Domestic
violence statistics
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One out of every four U.S. women will
experience violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime; only one-seventh
of domestic assaults come to the attention of police.
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An estimated 4.8 million intimate
partner rapes and physical assaults are perpetrated against women each
year, 2 million result in physical injury, 552,192 require some type
of medical treatment.
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Homicide at the hands of an intimate
partner accounts for one third of all female homicides, 5 percent of
all male homicides.
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One survey estimates that at least
three out of every 100 men had severely assaulted their female partner
in the preceding 12 months.
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Forty-percent to 60 percent of men
who abuse women also abuse children.
Characteristics
of batterers.
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Many batterers are intensely jealous,
have low self-esteem, blame others for their behavior, use sex as an
act of aggression and believe in male superiority. Some are Jekyll-Hydes,
hiding their brutal side from the world.
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Their three most common patterns are
control and power, denigration and belittling; and withdrawal of affection
and approval.
[
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Sources: CDC/National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Texas Department of Public Safety,
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Mayo Clinic; Texas Council
on Family Violence; Family Violence Prevention Services; Dr. Jeff Lohr.]
WEB sites.
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FaithTrust Institute - for the Prevention
of Sexual and Domestic Violence
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence: http://www.ncadv.org/
- Department of Justice/Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Center: http://www.aardvarc.org/
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Texas Council on Family Violence:
- Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse: http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
- Mayo Clinic: Domestic Violence: Domestic Violence
- Medline: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/domesticviolence.html
- National Mental Health Information Center: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/
- Tubman Family Alliance is a pioneer in family violence prevention in Minnesota's Twin Cities metropolitan area with the aim of preventing and ending family violence. http://www.tubman.org/tubman/
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National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control: http://www.cdc.gov/
Above information
is from San Antonio Express/News October 28, 2003...web
sites updated Feb 10,