Ten Facts about Domestic Violence Against Women

1. This year, about 450,000 women will be beaten between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. 
2. Battering is the single largest cause of injury to women in the United States. 
3. In homes where there is spouse abuse, children are abused or seriously neglected at a rate 1500 percent higher than the national average. 
4. About 30 percent of all women seeking treatment in hospital emergency rooms are victims of wife beating. 
5. Nearly 50 percent of abusive husbands batter their wives when they are pregnant, making them 4 times more likely to bear infants of low birth weight. 
6. In the nation's capital, an abusive spouse is arrested in less than 15 percent of the cases where the victim is bleeding from open wounds. 
7. One-third of all domestic violence cases, if reported, would be classified by police as felony rape, robbery, or aggravated assault. 
8. More than half of all homeless women are on the street because they are fleeing domestic violence. 
9. There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the United States as there are battered women's shelters. 
10. Last year, the number of women abused by their husbands was greater than the number of women who got married.