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Family Violence and abuse affects all of us; no one is immune to violence
- Abuse occurs in all forms of relationships including: parent-child, caregiver-client; adult child-parent; dating; gay and lesbian; marital and common-law; and sibling.
- Since the age of sixteen, 51% of Canadian women report having experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence.
- Nearly three in ten Canadian Women (29%) who have ever been married or lived in a common-law relationship have been physically or sexually assaulted by a marital partner at some point during the relationship: 21% of these women were assaulted during pregnancy
- Of 22,000 victims of spousal violence reported to a sample of 179 Canadian police agencies in 1997, 88% (19,575) were female and 12% (2,679) were male.
- Children witnessed violence against their mothers in almost 40% of violent marriages; in many cases of children witnessing violence, the violence was so severe that the women feared for their lives (52%) and/or were injured (61%).
- Nearly one quarter of women (22%) who have experienced wife assault never told anyone about the abuse.
- Violent men are three times as likely as nonviolent men to have witnessed spousal violence in childhood, and women who were raised in similar circumstances are twice as likely to be victims of spousal violence.
- Between 1978 and 1997, 1485 females and 442 males were killed by their spouses in Canada.
- A total of 90,792 women and children were admitted to 413 shelters for battered women across Canada in 1997-1998.
- In 1996, children under 18 represented 22% of victims of assaults reported to a sample of 154 police agencies; children represented 60% of all victims of sexual assault and 18% of all victims of physical assault.
- Of sexual assaults by family members reported to police, girls were victimized in 79% of cases (1,662); while boys were victims in 21% of cases (440).
- The degree of risk of sexual abuse of persons with disabilities is "at least 150% of that for individuals of the same sex and similar age without disabilities."
- In 1997, older adults accounted for 2% of victims of all violent crime reported to a sample of 179 police agencies; of these 53% reported sustaining some type of injury.
- Almost 25% of violent incidents against older persons reported to a sample of police in 1997 were perpetrated by family members; and while more older men were victimized by their adult children (41%) than by a spouse (28%), older women experienced violence by adult children (40%) and spouses (40%) in equal portions.
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