Domestic Violence is Real.

It's only make-up

Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. 

Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and thus is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death. The consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and truly last a lifetime.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FACTS

• One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
• An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.
• 85% of domestic violence victims are women.
• Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.
• Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.
• Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police. 
• There are 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are 3,800 animal shelters.
  
• Three to four million women in the United States are beaten in their homes each year by their husbands, ex-husbands, or male lovers.
  
• One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15 seconds in the United States.
 

 If you ARE being abused, there are shelters that you can go to. Domestic violence can happen to anyone...it can be physical or emotional...

xoxo,

Miss Nwoka