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Facts & Statistics
- Violence against women happens in all cultures and religions, in all ethnic and racial communities, at every age, and in every income group.
- The police-reported rate of violent crime against women aged 15 to 24 was 42% higher than the rate for women aged 25 to 34, and nearly double the rate for women aged 35 to 44.
- On average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. In 2009, 67 women were murdered by a current or former spouse or boyfriend.
- On any given day in Canada, more than 3,000 women (along with their 2,500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence.
- Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.
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- Women often stay because the abuser has threatened to kill them if they leave, or to kill himself, or to kill the children.
- Women believe these threats, for good reason - the most dangerous time for an abused women is when she attempts to leave her abuser. About 25% of all women who are murdered by their spouse had left the relationship. In one study, half of the murdered women were killed within two months of leaving the relationship
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- Although adults may think “the kids don’t know,” research shows that children see or hear 40 to 80% of domestic violence assaults
- Each year in Canada, an estimated 360,000 children witness or experience family violence
- According to the RCMP, a child who witnesses spousal violence is experiencing a form of child abuse, since research shows that “witnessing family violence is as harmful as experiencing it directly.
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