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All statistics are from the National Domestic Violence Network.
1 in 3 college women say they’ve been in an abusive dating relationship.
57% of college students who report experiencing dating violence and abuse said that it occurred during college.
58% of college students say they don’t know what to do to help someone who is a victim of dating abuse.
80% of female victims of completed rape experience their first rape before the age of 25, and 42% experience their first rape before the age of 18.
Women ages 18 to 34 generally experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence.
Students physically abused by partners are 2x more likely to earn C’s and D’s vs. A’s and B’s and are 25% more likely to drop out of school.
1 in 3 girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner.
Ages 12-18 is when violent behavior begins.
Only 33% of teens who were in an abusive relationship never told anyone about the abuse.
30% to 60% of intimate partner violence perpetrators also abuse children in the household.
79% identify as female, 11% male, and 1% identify as transgender, nonbinary, or other.
63% of responses are to a woman with 1 or more children in the home.
70% of the survivors that DVERT met on scene had never had contact with a victim service agency before even though many had prior interactions with law enforcement.
24% of women (1 in 4) and 14% of men (1 in 7) in the US have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
18% of women (1 in 5) and 1.4% of men (1 in 71) have been raped in their lifetime.
36% of women (1 in 3) and 28% of men (1 in 4) have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
