You don’t know if someone close to you has experienced domestic violence and is seeing how you’re responding to this situation.

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“1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking”

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1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

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Almost half of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively)

Source: The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010

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