Thursday, December 15, 2011

Linda C. Degutis

That almost one in five women have been raped in their lifetime is very striking and, I think, will be surprising to a lot of people.
I don’t think we’ve really known that it was this prevalent in the population.

The CDC released the results of their National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey and yikes. Extrapolating from the 16,507 people surveyed, 1 in 5 women have experienced rape or attempted rape, 1 in 4 have experienced violence from an intimate partner, and 1 in 6 have been stalked.

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  1. Linda C. Degutis, Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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