{"id":19469,"date":"2023-10-02T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyin.org\/?p=19469"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:04:47","slug":"domestic-violence-does-not-discriminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyin.org\/es\/resources\/news-library\/domestic-violence-does-not-discriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mes de concientizaci\u00f3n sobre la violencia dom\u00e9stica: la violencia dom\u00e9stica NO discrimina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October was first declared as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1989. Since then, October has been a time to acknowledge and be a voice for survivors.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Domestic Violence does NOT<\/strong> discriminate. It affects…<\/div>\n
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  • 1\/4 women\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1\/7 men\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and\/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime compared to 35% of heterosexual women. 26% of gay men and 37.3% of bisexual men have experienced rape, physical violence, and\/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime compared to 29% of heterosexual men.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • On average, a woman will leave an abusive relationship seven times before she leaves for good.\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Women are 70 times more likely to be killed in the two weeks after leaving than at any other time during the relationship.\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner & 94% of the victims of these murder-suicides are female.\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t