Every 9 seconds in the United States a woman is assaulted and beaten. 4,000,000 women a year are assaulted by their partners. In the United States, a woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped, or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant. Prison terms for killing husbands are twice as long as for killing wives. Domestic violence is the number one cause of emergency room visits by women.
Women are most likely to be killed when attempting to leave the abuser.
The number-one cause of women's injuries is abuse at home. This abuse happens more often than car accidents, mugging, and rape combined . This is an estimated 566,000 women in Minnesota alone. Battering often occurs during pregnancy. Approximately 1,155,600 adult American women have been victims of one or more forcible rapes by their husbands.