Abuse In America- 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.

- On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.

- 92% of women say that reducing domestic violence and sexual assault should be at the top of any formal efforts taken on behalf of women today.

- 1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.

- 1 in 5 female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Abused girls are significantly more likely to get involved in other risky behaviors. They are 4 to 6 times more likely to get pregnant and 8 to 9 times more likely to have tried to commit suicide.

- 1 in 3 teens report knowing a friend or peer who has been hit, punched, slapped, choked or physically hurt by his/her partner.

- Women of all races are equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.

- 37% 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.

- Some estimates say almost 1 million incidents of violence occur against a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend per year.

- For 30% of women who experience abuse, the first incident occurs during pregnancy.

- As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.

- Violence against women costs companies $72.8 million annually due to lost productivity.

- 74% of employed battered women were harassed by their partner while they were at work.

- Ninety-four percent of the offenders in murder-suicides were male.

- Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner(spouse, common-law spouse, ex-spouse, or boyfriend/girlfriend). Of these, 96 percent were females killed by their intimate partners.

- Most murder-suicides with three or more victims involved a "family annihilator" -- a subcategory of intimate partner murder-suicide.Family annihilators are murderers who kill not only their wives/girlfriends and children, but often other family members as well,before killing themselves.

- Seventy-five percent of murder-suicides occurred in the home.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH)

Abuse of women and children does occur in the Muslim world, for the same reason it occurs in the United States...socio-economic factors, jealousy or lack of education.

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Abuse In America- million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.

hijab related? :D

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Originally posted by imala:
Abuse of women and children does occur in the Muslim world, for the same reason it occurs in the United States...socio-economic factors, jealousy or lack of education.

Nah. In the US, it is for jealosy, anger and control/power. In the Muslim world, it is the educated who propose/justify it with what they say is religious reasons.

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Originally posted by ksazma:

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Originally posted by imala:
Abuse of women and children does occur in the Muslim world, for the same reason it occurs in the United States...socio-economic factors, jealousy or lack of education.

Nah. In the US, it is for jealosy, anger and control/power. In the Muslim world, it is the educated who propose/justify it with what they say is religious reasons.

I should have said "lack of wisdom". Education is not the best word. Education gives you a monetary advantage over the uneducated. It is possible to be educated and empty.

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