Domestic violence affects everyone, but women and their children are most affected. Statistics indicate that women account for over 85 percent of all reported cases of domestic violence. Because of this, it is difficult to believe there are individuals who say they are not affected. We beg to differ. The truth of the matter is, if you have a job or health care coverage, then you are affected.
People may not be directly affected or involved, but if you consider all of the socio-economic consequences of domestic violence, how could anyone believe they are not affected? How could anyone say they don’t care about this growing problem? The following sobering statistics from the American Institute on Domestic Violence certainly shed a different perspective on why and how everyone is affected by domestic violence.
National cost of domestic violence
• The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year.
• Of this total, nearly $4.1 billion is for victims requiring direct medical and mental health care services.
• Lost productivity and earnings because of intimate partner violence account for almost $1.8 billion each year.
• Intimate partner violence victims lose nearly 8 million days of paid work each year — the equivalent of more than 32,000 full-time jobs and nearly 5.6 million days of household productivity.
Corporate peers
• 68 percent of senior executives surveyed agreed that their company’s financial performance would benefit from addressing the issue of domestic violence among its employees.
• 94 percent of corporate security directors rank domestic violence as a high security risk.
• 78 percent of human resource directors identify domestic violence as a substantial employee problem.
• 56 percent of corporate leaders personally are aware of specific employees who are affected by domestic violence.
• 60 percent of senior executives said domestic violence has a harmful effect on their company’s productivity.
Human factor
• 85 to 95 percent of all domestic violence victims are female.
• More than 500,000 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year.
• 5.3 million women are abused each year.
• 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner.
• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.
• Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by a stranger.
Domestic violence in the workplace
• Homicide is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.
• Of the approximately 1.7 million incidents of workplace violence that occur in the U.S. every year, 18,700 are committed by an intimate partner: a current or former spouse, lover, partner or boyfriend/girlfriend.
Of battered workers
• 96 percent experience problems at work because of abuse.
• 74 percent are harassed while at work by their abuser.
• 56 percent are late to work.
• 28 percent leave work early.
• 54 percent miss entire days of work.
It is clear from these statistics that just about everyone is affected whether we admit it or not. We must accept that. We must work together to fight and keep as many victims of domestic violence safe and sound in our community.
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