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For every hour, as many as 115 children are
abused. |
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90%
of children from violent homes witness their fathers beating their mothers. |
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63%
of all boys, age 11-20, who commit murder, kill the man who was abusing
their mother. |
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Children in homes where violence occurs are physically abused or neglected
at. a rate 1500% higher than the national average. |
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Research has shown that the more severe the abuse of the mother, the worse
the child is abused. |
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Nationally, 75% of battered women say their children are physically or
sexually abused. |
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Daughters of abused women are six times more likely to be sexually abused as
girls from non-abusive families. |
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Research has found that 13 out of 20 incestuous fathers were also physically
violent to their wives and to their family members. |
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More than half of the child abductions in this country occur within the
context of domestic violence. |
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Approximately 3.3 million children witness domestic violence occurrences in
their homes each year. |
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Child victims of severe violence have two to four times higher rates of
trouble-making friends, temper tantrums, failing grades in school, having
problems in school and at home. |
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Abused children are arrested by the police four times more often than
nonabused children. |
