General link
http://www.aware.org/selfdefense.shtml
NP
I can back it up them up. Just sad people don't already know the facts
Domestic Violence Links
http://www.harborcov.org/pages/domestic_violence/index.asp
http://psychcentral.com/library/domestic_effects.htm
http://www.divorceinfo.com/violenceathome.htm
http://www.usda.gov/da/shmd/aware.htm#BREAK
http://www.strengthenoursisters.org/homocide.html
Some more info
Female victims of violence were more likely to be injured when attacked by someone they knew than female victims of violence who were attacked by strangers.
50% of all marriages experience one or more episodes of domestic violence.
In 20% of all marriages, this domestic violence is ongoing.
In the U.S., a woman is battered every 10 seconds.
(Lets paint a prettry picture come to six woman a minute,
come to 360 an hour 8640 a day.)
More than a third of the women treated for violent injuries in U.S. emergency rooms have been hurt by their husband or an intimate partner.
Male victims of violence are more likely to be injured by a stranger than by someone they know. Female victims of violence, in contrast, are much more likely to be injured by an intimate partner than by a stranger.
Each day in the United States, about four women are killed by an intimate male partner.
A woman is five times more likely to be assaulted in her own home than on the street.
FBI data indicate that 30% of female homicide victims are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. This translates into the death of four women per day at the hands of male partners.
In-depth research on all one-on-one murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases from 1980-84 found
that more than one-half of
female victims were killed by male partners. Sadly if you think cause thats an old report that the numbers are on the downside you are WRONG.
One of the most tragic outcomes of domestic violence is that well more than half of the young men between the ages of 11 and 22 who are in jail for homicide have killed their mother's batterer.
Rape Links.
http://www.gurl.com/findout/fastfacts/pages/0,,623600,00.html
http://thehookup.richmond.edu/~stealinghome/facts.htm
http://www.surviverape.org/myths.htm
http://www.womenscenterofjax.org/sidemenu/facts.htm
http://www.crcl.org.uk/myths.html
http://drdrew.com/Topics/article.asp?id=329
http://www.powa.co.za/Display.asp?ID=2
http://vip.msu.edu/theCAT/CAT_Author/MPK/colorado.html
http://www.pprsr.org/rapecrisis/statistics.cfm#women
some more facts
Crime statistics show that the age of people who are raped has ranged from two months to 97 years of age.
About three percent of American men - a total of 2.78 million men - have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
Over 50% of women know their attacker in some capacity, for example, friend, lover, colleague, husband or ex- partner.
30% of rape is done by a stranger
60% of women are attacked inside a building, and for 31% of women the rape occurs in their own home - the most common place of all.
One out of every six American women has been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape).
A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of rape crimes.
