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On the average, about one out of every three high school students is or has been in the past, involved in an abusive dating relationship.
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Only one out of every 25 victims of dating violence ever seeks the help of a teacher, minister, Rabbi, police officer, or counselor.
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Between 73 percent and 90 percent of the violent incidents occur in private settings outside the view of others.
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Only about four out of 10 relationships end after the onset of violence and abuse.
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When dating violence does occur in public, attempts to intervene occur less than half of the time.
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40 percent of teenage girls ages 14 to 17 say they know someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend.
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In one study, from 30 to 50 percent of female high school students reported having already experienced teen dating violence.
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Teen dating violence most often takes place in the home of one of the partners.
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In 1995, 7 percent of all murder victims were young women who were killed by their boyfriends.
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One in five (or 20 percent) of dating couples report some type of violence in their relationship.
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One of five college females will experience some form of dating violence.
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A survey of 500 young women, ages 15 to 24, found that 60 percent were currently involved in an ongoing abusive relationship and all participants had experienced violence in a dating relationship.
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One study found that 38 percent of date rape victims were young women from 14 to 17 years of age.
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A survey of adolescent and college students revealed that date rape accounted for 67 percent of sexual assaults.
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More than half of young women raped (68 percent) knew their rapist either as a boyfriend, friend or casual acquaintance.
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Six out of 10 rapes of young women occur in their own home or a friend or relative's home, not in a dark alley.
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More than 4 in every 10 incidents of domestic violence involve non-married persons. (Bureau of Justice Special Report: Intimate Partner Violence, May 2000)