- Number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq: 6,614:
- Number of women, in the same period, killed as the result of domestic violence in the US: 11,766
- Number of people per minute who experience intimate partner violence in the U.S.: 24
- Number of workplace violence incidents in the U.S. annually that are the result of current or past intimate partner assaults: 18,700
- Number of women in the U.S. who report intimate partner violence: 1 in 4
- Number of men in the U.S. who report intimate partner violence: 1 in 7*
- Number of women who will experience partner violence worldwide: 1 in 3
- Order of causes of death for European women ages 16-44: domestic violence, cancer, traffic accidents
- Increase in likelihood that a woman will die a violent death if a gun in present in the home: 270 percent
- Number of women killed by spouses who were shot by guns kept by men in the home in France and South Africa: 1 in 3
Sunrise in Juneau the morning of 8/2010: This is Douglas Harbor, Alaska.
Saturday, July 2, 2016
50 FACTS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Increase in likelihood that a woman will die a violent death if a gun in present in the home: 270 percent
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/50-actual-facts-about-dom_b_2193904.html
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