Every 7.5 seconds a woman is beaten by her husband or boyfriend.
Battery is the single major cause of injury to women-more than rape, muggings or accidents combined.
Two thousand to four thousand women are beaten to death annually. Every hour 12 women are raped. Despite its prevalence, domestic violence remains a gravely uncovered story. Experts now estimate that as many as 4 million women experience severe or life-threatening assaults from a male partner in an average 12 month period in the United States and that one in every three women will experience at least one physical assault by an intimate partner during adulthood. In 1992, the U.S. surgeon general ranked abuse by husbands and partners as the leading cause of injury to women aged 15 to 44.