Of the almost 3.5 million violent crimes committed against family members, 49% of these were crimes against spouses.

Males were 83% of spouse murderers and 75% of dating partner murderers

84% of spouse abuse victims were females, and 86% of victims of dating partner abuse at were female.

1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be stalked in their lifetime.

1,006,970 women and 370,990 men are stalked annually in the United States.

50% of offenders in state prison for spousal abuse had killed their victims. Wives were more likely than husbands to be killed by their spouses: wives were about half of all spouses in the population in 2002, but 81% of all persons killed by their spouse.

The average duration of stalking is 1.8 years.

13% of college women were stalked during one six to nine month period.

In 8 out of 10 rape cases, the victim knows the perpetrator.

Another national survey found that 34% of women were victims of sexual coercion by a husband or intimate partner in their lifetime.

13% of adult women had been victims of completed rape during their lifetime

An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international boarders each year, and approximately 80% of trafficking victims are women and girls.

18-24 year-olds comprised only 11.7% of the population in 1998 and 2002, but were the majority of victims of violence committed by a boyfriend or girlfriend (42%).

Approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner.