Fifty percent of all homeless women and children in this country are fleeing domestic violence. Every year, domestic violence results in almost 100,000 days of hospitalization, almost 30,000 emergency dept.
Women are nine times more likely to be attacked at home than on the street.
Domestic violence is the single major cause of injury to American women, exceeding muggings, gang violence, murders, and even auto accidents. Violence in lesbian relationships occurs at the same frequency as violence in heterosexual relationships. Children exposed to domestic violence are 8 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the family.