Divorce Touchy Subject in Cases of Domestic Violence
By Heather Faucher | Posted on August 4, 2009 | Filed Under Divorce
According to the American Institute on Domestic Violence, 5.3 million women are abused each year. Additionally, at least 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner. Domestic violence remains the leading cause of injury to women, and women are far more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than a random stranger. Ironically, while men typically fall victim to violent crimes more often than women, women are victimized by intimate partners 5 to 8 times more often than men. In fact, statistics show that 21% of violent crimes against women are committed by an intimate partner, whereas only about 2% of the violence committed against men are perpetrated by an intimate partner.
Violence is given as a reason for divorce in approximately 22% of middle-class marriages. Separated or divorced women fall victim to the highest rates of intimate partner victimization, with never-married women following at the lower end of the spectrum. Many people look at the battered women who stay in abusive relationships and assume they must not want help if they don’t ask for it, or just “get out” of the dangerous situation they’re in. But sometimes it’s just not that easy.
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