You may be a victim of battering if your partner: hits, kicks or shoves you uses his or her temper, jealous rages, or anger to frighten you isolates you from your support system calls you names, plays mind games threatens to commit suicide, or to report you to the authorities controls access to money, food, necessities forces sex against your will   You may be a victim of sexual assault if you were: pressured or forced to engage in sexual activity by a stranger, acquaintance, or partner touched in a sexual manner without your consent sexually harassed including obscene phone calls, cat calls, employer/coworker propositions as a child touched in a manner that made you feel uncomfortable unconscious, intoxicated or otherwise unable to give consent to sexual contact 6 million women are battered each year Every 15 seconds an American woman seeks emergency medical care because of injuries received in a beating Battering causes more injuries to women, exceeding combined injuries from rapes, assaults, and auto accidents There are 3 times as many animal shelters in the United States as there are shelters for women and children 10 women die each day as a result of battering 1 woman in 3 will be raped in her lifetime 70% of all rapes are planned 1 rape is committed every 40 seconds 1 in 12 college men report they have committed rape 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused by the age 18