More than 1.1 million or 7% of women and 720,000 or 4% of men have been victims of some kind of domestic abuse in the past year, officialcrime figures reveal.
The full scale of the hidden world of sexual assault, family abuse and stalking is revealed in official figures that show that nearly 5 million women or 30% of the adult female population have experienced some form of domestic abuse since age 16.
The latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales also reveal that there were an estimated 406,000 victims of sexual assaults last year and nearly one million victims of stalkers. More than two-thirds of these were women.
The annual survey of people's experience of crime also reveals that a startling 10% of the public think that it is "mostly or sometimes" acceptable to hit or slap their partner in response to them having an affair. This rises to 16% of older teenagers, with little difference in attitude between men and women.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/13/domestic-abuse-violence-victims-crime-survey-figures
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