Domestic Violence in the United States: A Quiz |
| 1. Police and court records in North America and Europe indicate that
up to ___% of victims of reported domestic assaults are women. |
| 2. Every ___ seconds, a woman is beaten. |
| 3. If all the ________ women beaten in the last year joined hands,
the line would reach from New York City to beyond _______________. |
| 4. Researchers estimate that between ___% and ___% of American women
will be abused during their lifetime. |
| 5. In as many as ___% of families where a mother is being beaten,
the batterer is also physically or sexually abusing the children.
When the definition of child abuse encompasses psychological abuse,
virtually ___% of these children are abused by violent fathers. |
| 6. In any given year, between ___% and ___% of the women killed in the
U.S. die at the hands of a current/former husband or boyfriend. |
| 7. Between 1/1/90 and 12/31/99, ___% of the women killed in Vermont
are believed by police to have died at the hands of a current/former
husband or boyfriend. During the same period, ___% of the men killed died
at the hands of a current/former wife or girlfriend. |
| 8. In 1991, of the young men between 11 and 20 in U.S. jails for
murder, ___% had killed their mother's abuser. |
