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85% of
domestic violence victims are female 15% are male.
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Every
nine seconds a woman is beaten (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
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Every year between three to four
million children witness domestic violence in this country.
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Studies on the
prevalence of domestic violence suggest that from one-fifth to
one-third of all women will be physically assaulted by a partner or
ex-partner during their lifetime (Council on Scientific Affairs,
American Medical Association. 1991. "Violence Against Women:
Relevance for Medical Practitioners.” Journal of the American
Medical Association 267(23): 1992).
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Domestic violence
is an epidemic in the United States as well as here in Nebraska.
Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a
current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year(1) to
3.9 million women who are physically abused by their husbands or
live-in partners per year(2) ((1)U.S. Department of justice,
Violence by intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or
Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998, (2) The
Commonwealth Fund, First Comprehensive National Health Survey of
American Women, July 1993).
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In Nebraska
between July 2002 ‑ June 2003, local domestic violence/sexual
assault programs:
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Served 9,634
victims (primary and secondary), including 1,240 children
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Provided 55,154
shelter beds
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Responded to
63,508 crisis line calls
(Source:
Nebraska's Network of Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Programs
Annual Statistical Report. Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault
Coalition.)
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About 1 in 4
students have experienced physical violence in their dating
relationships (Source: Roscoe and Callahan, 1985 and Carlson,
1987).
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Forty percent of
teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has
been hit or beaten by a boyfriend (Children Now/Kaiser Permanente
Poll, December 1995).
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Researchers have
estimated that 3.3 to 10 million U.S. children annually witness
assaults by one parent against another (Ending Violence Against
Women: An Agenda for the Nation, 2000).
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2 out of 3
Americans are affiliated with a religious, spiritual, or faith based
group (U.S. Census Bureau-1998).
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1 out of 4
Americans are active members of their faith community (U.S. Census
Bureau-1998).
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