...on campus...
Keep
in mind that the above statistics are just the offences that
are reported. There are many women who talk to officials about
their experiences but they do not report them for many different
reasons. The main concern here on campus is to get the physical
and mental help that they may need. Although women are encouraged
to report the violence they experienced they aren't made to.
...and beyond...
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Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in our
country (FBI statistics).
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One out of five college students have reported
at least one incidence of premarital abuse in their relationship
varying from slapping and hitting to more life threatening
violence (Domestic Violence Prevention and Services).
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One in every three teen dating relationships
is violent (Levy, B., Ed., Dating Violence: Young Women in
Danger. Seattle: Seal Press, 1991).
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More than 90% of the injuries in dating
violence occur to the woman in the relationship.
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30% of all women who are murdered in this
country are killed by their husband or boyfriend.
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51% of battered women in a shelter had been
physically abused in a dating relationship (Claire Pedrick
Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families).
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The US Bureau of Justice reports that 95%
of the reported incidences of assaults in relationships are
committed by males.
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Batterers are found in all classes and types
of people: rich, poor, professional, unemployed, black white,
urban and rural.
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Typically, in 72-77% of the cases, violence
occurs only after a couple has become seriously involved,
rather than in the early, more casual stages of dating (Angela
Brown, When Battered Women Kill).
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Although many men who batter do not drink
heavily and batterers who do drink don't necessarily give
up battering when they give up drinking, alcohol often acts
as their excuse to beat their partners.
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People stay in abusive relationships for
many reasons such as fear, economic dependence, and confusion.
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Women who stay in abusive relationships
often think that the abuser needs their help or can change.
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Dating violence often leads to marital violence.
