Domestic violence is on the rise among teenager couples and being less reported by young women. Bullying in school is a good indicator for later acceptance of domestic violence

1. Domestic Violence
On The Job Training
Velva Boles, MD

2. Working with Domestic Abuse
Prevention in Colorado
 Volunteer worker with Justice Department
and St. Anthony Hospital in Denver,
Colorado 1990-1994
 Counseled women secured in safe houses
 Provided medical care for battered women

3. Working with Domestic Abuse
Prevention in Colorado
 Completed medical degree in 1989 at
University of Pittsburgh, was in Colorado
for graduate work in molecular biology at
Colorado State University and general
research at Center for Disease Control,
CDC, Zoonotic Branch in Fort Collins,
Colorado

4. Prevalence of Domestic Violence
 Study conducted in the 50 states
(1995-1996) that poled 16,000 people,
showed nearly 25% of all women and 7.6
% of all men had been raped and/or
physically assaulted by a current or former
spouse.

5. Data from year 2000
 Approximately 1.3 million women and
835,000 men are physically assaulted by
an intimate partner annually in the United
States
 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by
an intimate partner.
 33% of all female murder victims and 4%
of male murder victims were at the hands
of an intimate partner

6. Data from 1998 -2002
 Of 3.5 million violent crimes committed
against family members, 49% of these
were crimes against spouses
 84% of spouse abuse victims were
females, 86% of dating partner abuse
were female

7. Department of Justice
 56% of women who experience partner
violence are diagnosed with psychiatric
disorder.
 29% of all women who attempt suicide
have been battered
 Battered women have an increase in
anxiety disorders, depression and post-
traumatic stress disorder

8. Stalking and Victimizing
 1,006,970 women and 370,990 men are
stalked annually in the United States
 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be
stalked in their lifetime
 59% of female victims and 30% of male
victims are stalked by an intimate partner
 31% of women stalked by an intimate
partner are also sexually assaulted by that
partner

9. National Women Study (2006)
 13% of adult women (18-34) are
victims of completed rape
 These women were raped by
husbands or ex-husbands (9%);
fathers or stepfathers (11%);
boyfriends or ex-boyfriends(10%);
relatives (16%); friends and neighbors
(29%).

10. Violence by Ethnicity
 Native Americans are victims of rape or sexual
assault at more than double the rate of other
racial groups
 Black females experience intimate partner
violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white
females, and 22 times the rate of women of
other races
 Black males experience intimate partner
violence at a rate 62% higher than that of white
males and 22 times the rate of men of other
races.

11. Violence by Ethnicity
 The Number One Killer of African-
American women ages 15 to 34 is
homicide at the hands of a current or
former intimate partner

12. Violence by Ethnicity
 Texas Council on Family Violence report
64% of all Hispanic Texans have
experienced some form of domestic
violence (5.2 million Hispanics affected)
 50% of all Hispanic Texans believe
domestic violence is caused by
circumstances beyond the batterers
control

13. Violence by Ethnicity
 Project AWARE and NAWHO, of world
health organization, working with Asian
women, report 81.1% of the women in
study experienced at least one form of
intimate partner violence

14. Teens
• Approximately one in five female high school
students reports being physically and/or sexually
abused by a dating partner
• In a study of 724 adolescent mothers, between
the ages of 12 -18, one of every eight pregnant
adolescents reported having been physically
assaulted by the father of her baby during the
preceding months.

15. Same Sex: LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transvestite)
 11% of lesbians and 15% gay men
reported violence at the hands of their
partners (2003 National survey)
 15.4% of same-sex (male) reported being
raped, physically assaulted and stalked;
10% same-sex (female) reported such
violence.

16. Domestic Violence and the
Workplace
 Some abusive partners may try to stop
women from working by calling them
frequently during the day or coming to
their place of work unannounced
 50% of battered women who are
employed are harassed at work by their
abusive partners

17. Domestic Violence and Children
 In Michigan, 46.7% of low-income pre-
school children were exposed to at least
one incident of violence in the family.
 Children exposed to violence suffered
symptoms of post-traumatic stress
disorder expressed as bed-wetting,
nightmares, headaches, gastrointestinal
complaints and behavioral disorders.

18. Observations
31 year old mother of three second visit in
shelter
New Year Eve’s Emergency Room
experience
Childhood memory of neighbor boy’s story