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NNEDV
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), a social change organization, is dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists.
It was formed in 1990 when a small group of domestic violence victim advocates came together to promote federal legislation related to domestic violence. The group was known as the Domestic Violence Coalition on Public Policy.
Domestic Violence Counts: Census 2023 Report
For the eighteenth consecutive year, on September 6, 2023, NNEDV conducted a one-day unduplicated count of adults and children seeking domestic violence service in the United States. This annual census documents the number of individuals who sought services in a single 24-hour period, as well as the types of services requested, the number of service requests that went unmet due to a lack of resources, and the issues and barriers that domestic violence programs face as they strive to provide services to victims of domestic violence. This report is instrumental in raising awareness about domestic violence and the incredible work that local domestic violence programs do every day.
Facts and Numbers
Family and domestic violence are estimated to affect 10 million people in the United States every year. Domestic and family violence includes a range of abuse, including economic, physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological, toward children, adults, and elders.
- Approximately 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men 18 years of age or older experience domestic violence.
- Domestic violence may be perpetrated on women, men, parents, and children.
- Annually, domestic violence is responsible for over 1500 deaths in the United States.
- Most perpetrators and victims do not seek help.
- Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking are high, with intimate partner violence occurring in over 10 million people each year.
- Elderly abuse is thought to occur in 3% to 10% of the population of elders.
- Approximately 10% of children are exposed to domestic violence annually, and 25% are exposed to at least 1 event during their childhood.
- Domestic violence affects approximately 325,000 pregnant women each year.
- Domestic violence is more common among pregnant women than preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.
- Reproductive abuse may occur and includes impregnating against a partner's wishes by stopping a partner from using birth control.
- Of those injured by domestic violence, over 75% continue to experience abuse.
- Over half of battered women who attempt suicide will try again; often they are successful with the second attempt.
- Healthcare professionals are usually the first individuals with an opportunity to identify domestic violence.
- Nurses are usually the first healthcare providers victims encounter.
- Fifty percent of women seen in emergency departments report a history of abuse, and approximately 40% of those killed by their abuser sought help in the 2 years before death.