Domestic Violence Against Women by Andrea Aguirre Sanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d en-us 2017-04-11 17:24:06 UTC 2017-04-12 17:26:01 UTC hello@padlet.com andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165943312 Domestic violence can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse and threats of abuse. Men are sometimes abused by partners, but domestic violence is most often directed toward women. Domestic violence can happen in heterosexual or same-sex relationships.]]> 2017-04-11 17:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165943312 andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165943982 My PSA is on Domestic Violence against women, and how It needs to stop because On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.]]> 2017-04-11 17:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165943982 andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165946727 2017-04-11 17:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165946727 What is the violence against women? andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165947179 "violence against women" is understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion]]> 2017-04-11 17:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165947179 What percentage of domestic violence victims are men? andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165947480 Women are much more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence with 85 percent of domestic abuse victims being women and 15 percent men. Too many women have been held captive by domestic violence]]> 2017-04-11 17:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165947480 How many women are killed each year by domestic violence? andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165948020 About 4,000 women die each year due to domestic violence. Of the total domestic violence homicides, about 75% of the victims were killed as they attempted to leave the relationship or after the relationship had ended. Seventy-three percent of male abusers were abused as children.]]> 2017-04-11 17:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/165948020 andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166128798
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]]> 2017-04-12 17:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166129230 NATIONAL STATISTICS andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166129787
  • On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.1
  • 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of [some form of] physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.1
  • 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.1

    • ]]>     2017-04-12 17:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166129787     RAPE andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130048
  • 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men in the United States has been raped in their lifetime.1
  • Almost half of female (46.7%) and male (44.9%) victims of rape in the United States were raped by an acquaintance. Of these, 45.4% of female rape victims and 29% of male rape victims were raped by an intimate partner.11

    • ]]>     2017-04-12 17:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130048     STALKING andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130586
  • 19.3 million women and 5.1 million men in the United States have been stalked in their lifetime.1 60.8% of female stalking victims and 43.5% men reported being stalked by a current or former intimate partner.11

    • ]]>     2017-04-12 17:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130586     HOMICIDE andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130754
  • A study of intimate partner homicides found that 20% of victims were not the intimate partners themselves, but family members, friends, neighbors, persons who intervened, law enforcement responders, or bystanders.3
  • 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female.8


    • ]]>     2017-04-12 17:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130754     CHILDREN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE andrea_aguirresanchez https://padlet.com/andrea_aguirresanchez/srzzszci0f2d/wish/166130969
  • 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.5

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