Assault by a family member is more than twice as likely to cause injury than an assault by a stranger. Domestic violence is the cause of more visits to emergency departments by women than any other cause of injury. More children are served in battered women's shelters than are adults. Husbands and boyfriends account for account for 13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year. Homicide is the most frequent manner in which female workers are fatally injured at work.
Pregnancy is a risk factor for physical abuse.
Women of all races and ethnicities were about equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates. The number of women abused, battered and assaulted is only an estimate, since many women do not report the crime or the cause of injury when a violent act is committed against them by an intimate partner. Information was also gathered from The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Statistics, The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, The Family Violence Prevention Fund, The Los Angeles Coroner's Office, The Alliance Foundation, and The Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council.