More than one million women seek medical treatment for abuse every year and more than 150,00 women are raped. One women in the United States is beaten every 18 seconds. An estimated 75 percent of rapes occur between people who know each other. A women is raped every 6 seconds in the United States. One in ten adolescent girls suffer from anorexia or bulimia.
Young women are one quarter of today's homeless population.
40,000 teenage girls drop out of high school each year because of pregnancy. At least 2 million women are subjected to physical abuse each year. As many as 1,871 women are raped each day.