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Domestic violence (view source)
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Domestic violence occurs least often in a marriage, more often with an unmarried heterosexual couple living together, and most often among homosexual couples. See [[Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence]].
Domestic violence occurs least often in a marriage, more often with an unmarried heterosexual couple living together, and most often among homosexual couples. See [[Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence]].
*Fifty-seven percent of homeless families identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness.<ref>The United States Conference of Mayors, A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1999, December 1999, p. 94</ref>
*Abusive husbands harass 74 percent of employed battered women at work, either in person or over the telephone. The costs of intimate partner violence against women exceed an estimated $5.8 billion.<ref>Center for Disease Control, 2003</ref>
*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.<ref>Department of Justice, August 1997. Violence related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments. Michael R. Rand. Bureau of Justice Statistics</ref>
*Boys who witness domestic violence in their own home are 33% more likely to become batterers.<ref> Straus, M.A., Gelles, R.J. & Steinmetz, S. Behind Closed Doors. Doubleday, Anchor, 1980
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*Forty to sixty percent of men who abuse women also abuse children.<ref>American Psychl. Ass'n, Violence and the Family: Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), p. 80</ref> See also [[child abuse]].
*Ninety to ninety-five percent of domestic violence victims are women.<ref> A Report of the Violence against Women Research Strategic Planning Workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Justice in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995.</ref>
The degree that domestic violence is overwhelming against women is challenged by male advocacy groups, who also contend it neglects the impact of verbal abuse.<ref>http://www.batteredmen.com/gjdvdata.htm</ref><ref>http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm</ref>
==References==
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==Links==
==Links==
*[http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/domestic-violence/ Definitions of domestic violence]
*[http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/domestic-violence/ Definitions of domestic violence]
*[http://www.stopdv.org/Content/CAFVIC/GetInformed/Statistics/default.htm stopdv.org. Multitudinous statistics on domestic and dating violence against women]
*[http://www.dvmen.org dvmen.org. Domestic Violence Against Men In Colorado]
[[Category:Crimes]]
[[Category:Crimes]]