Warning signs of domestic violence. Protect your rights, protect your life, protect your children. Don't let domestic violence in your home continue unreported. Only 3 percent of the male victims during this period were killed by their wives or girlfriends.
Domestic violence occurs at least once in two-thirds of all marriages.
Ninety-five percent of the victims of domestic violence are women. Twenty-two to 35 percent of the women who visit emergency departments in U.S. hospitals are there for symptoms related to ongoing domestic abuse. Each year more than one million women seek medical assistance for injuries resulting from battering and domestic violence. There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the U.S. than there are battered women's shelters . If you are the victim of domestic violence, call the Police .