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Every 15 seconds a woman is battered. Two
to four million women are
abused each year and 4,000 of them die.
Every 45 seconds someone in the United
States is
sexually assaulted.
“Yahveh
is my Rock,
my Fortress
and Deliverer,
my God, my
Rock, in
whom I find Shelter, my
Shield, the
Power that saves me, my
Stronghold.
I call on
Yahveh, who
is worthy of praise; and I am saved from my
enemies. Tehillim (Psalms) 18:2-3
Yah’s Messianic
Fellowship’s Congregation is Devoted to
Yahveh in providing a
Safe Place
for those who Satan has set out to kill,
steal and destroy.
Domestic
violence is a problem of epidemic
proportions in our country and community.
Nearly one-third of American women (31
percent) report being physically or
sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend
at some point in their lives, according to
a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.
Women are victims of domestic violence
much more often than men are. In 2001, the
U.S. Department of Justice found that more
than half a million American women (588,490
women) were victims of nonfatal violence
committed by intimate partners. That same
year, women accounted for 85 percent of the
victims of intimate partner violence.
Women are more likely than men to be
severely injured as a result of intimate
partner violence. Women are seven to 14
times more likely than men to report
suffering severe physical assaults from an
intimate partner, according to a 1998 study
conducted by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the National
Institute for Justice.
Women also are more likely to be killed
by their intimate partners than men. On
average, more than three women are murdered
by their husbands or boyfriends in this
country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women
were killed by an intimate partner. The
same year, 440 men were killed by an
intimate partner, according to the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Information from
The Oregon Social Learning Center
40-60% of men who abuse women also abuse
children.
--American Psychological Association,
Violence and the Family: Report of the
American Psychological Association
Presidential Task Force on Violence and the
Family (1996), p. 80.
For crisis help, call your local
police or the DV Hotline at
1-800-799-7233 |
From
Satan's Violence 