One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. One in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.

• An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
• The majority (73%) of family violence victims are female.
• Females were 84% of spousal abuse victims and 86% of abuse victims at the hands of a boyfriend.
• The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds $5.8 billion each year, $4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health services.
• Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults.

[source: National Coalition on Domestic Violence]