Domestic Violence Statistics

Written by Holli Marshall

Children from homes where domestic violence occurs are physically or sexually abused and/or seriously neglected at a rate of 15 times the national average.

Findings from a number of studies suggest that between 53% and 70% of male batterers also abuse their children.

A separate study found that women who have been hit by their husbands are twice as likely as other women to abuse a child.

Between 75% and 87% of the children in households where domestic violence was present observed the beating of their mothers.

Domestic violence was one of the factors which distinguished severe physical abuse cases from cases of moderate or mild abuse.

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