Domestic Violence
1 in 4 women in the U.S. are victims of domestic violence.
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior used to establish and maintain power and control over an intimate partner through fear and intimidation, often including the threat or use of physical violence. The abuse may be verbal, emotional, physical, and/or sexual; it is not an isolated event, and it generally escalates over time.
Sexual Violence
1 in 5 women in the U.S. are victims of rape.
Sexual violence encompasses a wide range of non-consensual sexual activities, which may be perpetrated by partners, friends, family, acquaintances, or strangers. This may include but is not limited to sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment. Sexual abuse includes, but is not limited to, marital rape, coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent, attacks on sexual parts of the body, forcing sex after physical violence has occurred, treating one in a sexually demeaning manner and controlling reproduction by sabotaging methods of birth control.
Many people think that most rapes are committed by strangers, but the reality is that most people are raped by someone they know.