A woman is beaten every 15 seconds. There are 3 times as many cases of reported domestic violence as reported rapes, but only about 1 out of 10 are ever reported. (FBI, Uniform Crime Reports)

1 out of 6 couples in the U.S. experience domestic violence every year.

There are at least 40,000 abused women in Philadelphia.

Spouse murders account for 1/8 of all homicides in the U.S.

The shelter for battered women and their children has to turn away 8 women for every 1 who can come, because of lack of sace.

Many women are raped by their husbands or by a man they have slept with.

Several states now recognize rape within a marriage as a crime.

Hotlines and legal services exist for women who need counseling, want to discuss their options, or who want to take legal action.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT HAVING SEX.

A person is guilty of stalking in New Jersey if he or she purposely and repeatedly follows another person, and engages in a course of conduct or makes a credible threat with the intent of annoying or placing that person in reasonble fear of death or bodily injury.

A national survey revealed that 12% of college women have been victims of rape and 52% had experienced some form of sexual violence.

In one study, 64% of college men acknowledge that they may force sex on a woman if they were reasonably certain that they would not get caught.

Victims of rape are selected because of accessibility and vulnerability. Rape has nothing to do with the victim's character.

According to the FBI, only 3% of all rape charges are false reports.

Men are more likely than women to assume that a woman who drinks alcohol on a date is a willing sex partner. 40% of men who thought this way also believed it was acceptable to force sex on an intoxicated woman.