• An estimated 2-4 million American women are battered each year by their husband or intimate partner; that's an average of one woman beaten every 15 seconds.
• Children also are battered in 50% of wife-abusing homes.
• Half of all homeless women and children in the U.S. are fleeing a violent situation.
• Almost 80% of children who run away from home are fleeing abusive homes.
• More than 60% of males between the ages of 11-20 serving jail time for homicide have killed their mother's abuser.
• Battering is the cause of 15-30% of emergency room visits by women, but only 5% of those women are recognized as having been abused.
• Battering may start or intensify during pregnancy. The risk for miscarriage and low birth weight babies is much higher among battered women.
• There are nearly 3 times as many animal shelters in the U.S. as there are shelters for battered women and children.
• The violent crime victimization rate at school declined from 1992 to 2003. Even so, violence, theft, bullying, drugs, and weapons are still widespread.
• In the 2002-03 school year, there were 15 student homicides and 8 student suicides in the nation's schools, figures that translate to less than one homicide or suicide per million students.
• In 2003, 5 percent of students ages 12 to 18 reported being victimized at school during the previous six months: 4 percent reported theft, while 1 percent said they were victims of a violent crime.
• 2003, 21 percent of students reported that street gangs were present at their school during the previous six months.
• In 2003, 33 percent of high school students reported having been in a fight anywhere, and 13 percent said they had been in a fight on school property during the preceding 12 months.
• In 2003, students in urban schools were twice as likely as students in rural and suburban schools to fear being attacked at school or on the way to and from school.

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