Every 9 seconds a woman is beaten.

Every 3 minutes a woman is raped.

Only 1 out of every 10 victims of domestic violence report the incident.

Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44.

Domestic violence is the number-one cause of emergency room visits by women.

Currently there are 2,000 battered women in America who are serving prison time for defending their lives against their batterers.

One-third of women who are physically abused by a husband or boyfriend grew up in a household where this happened to their mother. About one in five were abused themselves as a child or teenager

Thirty percent of American women report that they have been physically abused by their husband or boyfriend at one time or another.

The Bureau of National Affairs estimates that domestic violence costs American businesses $3 billion to $5 billion each year in absenteeism, lower productivity, higher turnover, and health care and safety costs.

In one study, 74% of employed abused women were harassed at work by their abuser over the phone or in person - causing 56% of them to be late for work at least five times a month, 28% to leave early at least five days a month, and 54% to miss at least three full days of work a month.

Americans estimate that half of all men, on average, have physically abused their wives or girlfriends at one time or another.

Thirty-eight percent of Americans agree "some wives provoke their husbands into physically abusing them".

There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the U.S. as shelters for battered women.

Deaths related to domestic violence numbered 90 in 2001.

Arizona ranked eighth nationwide in 2001 in the number of women killed by men, with 54 deaths.

Every 5 minutes a law enforcement officer responds to a domestic violence call.

23,446 women and children requested shelter; shelter was available to 16,126 women and children, 69% at the time of the request. (2000)

Last year left 17,000 women and children in Arizona trying to find a place to escape from their abusers.