BATTERING. Rape isn’t the only crime against women. Being beaten, kicked, hit, slapped, gouged and thrown, pushed or assaulted is even more common.
In 2001 domestic violence made up 20 percent of the statistics of violent crime against women. It wasn’t just women being killed. That same year domestic partners committed three percent of all violent crimes against men.
Although only 572,000 reports of assault by a husband or boyfriend or former intimate partner are officially reported to federal officials each year the numbers of assaults on women is nearly quadruple that. Even the most conservative estimates by law enforcement officials’ show two to four million women of all races and classes are battered every year.
At least 170,000 of those beatings are serious enough to require hospitalization, emergency room care or a doctor’s attention.
You don’t have to be poor, ignorant or black to be a victim. Many battering victims are the wives of doctors, lawyers and police officers.
Never Stand Alone Here is some helpful sites you need to check
Rape Incest & Abuse National Network
National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE) http://www.rainn.org/
A website for Rape Aggression Defense System
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