Children who have witnessed violence at home are also five times more likely to commit or suffer violence when they become adults. Every 15 seconds a woman is battered by her partner. An estimated 3 to 4 million women in the U.S. are battered each year by their husbands or partners. 1.5 million of these assaults are by intimate partners. Violence against women is primarily partner violence.
Women are significantly more likely than men are to be injured during an assault.
About 1 in 3 women injured during a physical or sexual assault required medical care. Researchers credit the drop to the availability of domestic violence services and the rising divorce rate. Women have been enabled to leave violent relationships thereby decreasing the likelihood that they will kill their partners in self-defense. Each hotline service averts 1.4 married male homicides per year, and each legal advocacy service produces a decrease of 0.7 married male victims. 14,761 adult female and 572 adult male domestic violence victims were served by Iowa's domestic violence projects.