National:

• A woman is battered every nine seconds in the United States.
• One out of every four U.S. women has been assaulted by an intimate partner.
• Approximately one in five female high-school students reports being physically and /or sexually abused by a dating partner.
• Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner
• The U.S. Department of Justice reported that 37 percent of all women who sought care in hospital emergency rooms for violence-related injuries were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.
• Women experience more intimate-partner violence that do men.  Approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the U.S.
• 64 percent of the women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since the age of 18 were victimized by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend or date.
• According to a report presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee, 50 percent of all homeless women and children in this country are fleeing domestic violence.
• 30 percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
• A child’s exposure to the father abusing the mother is the strongest risk factor for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next.

State:

• More than 800 Minnesotans, or 16 of every 100,000 people, were treated in hospitals for injuries caused by an intimate partner in 2001.
• The most common reason for women to seek temporary shelter in Minnesota is to flee an abusive partner. In 2000, 30 percent of all women surveyed were homeless, at least in part, because of domestic abuse in the last 12 months.
• In 2003, at least 13 women and 10 children were murdered in Minnesota because of domestic violence; 22 children were left motherless because an intimate partner murdered their mother; two friends or family members were murdered because of domestic violence. In 2002, at least 16 women, 12 men and two children were murdered or committed suicide in the course of domestic violence in Minnesota. In 2001, 33 women and 11 children were killed as a result of domestic violence.

City:

• There were 26,616 calls to 911 in Minneapolis Emergency Communications Department in 2002 identified as a "domestic."
• In 2001, Minneapolis Police made 2,175 domestic assault arrests and wrote an additional 4,741 domestic assault reports.

Sources: The Commonwealth Fund, July 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, November 2000; Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 286, No. 5, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 1995, 1997; Elizabeth Schneider for the Ford Foundation; Lieberman Research Inc., Tracking Survey for the Advertising Council & the Family Violence Prevention Fund, July-Oct. 1996; APA, Violence and the Family, 1996; Minnesota Department of Health; Wilder Research Center’s 2000; Minnesota Coalition of Battered Women Femicide Report 2003.