The Violence Against Women Survey - Highlights

-One-half of all women have experienced at least one incident of violence since the age of 16
-Almost one-half of women reported violence by men known to them and one-quarter reported violence by a stranger

-One-quarter of all women have experienced violence at the hands of their current or past marital partner (includes common-law unions)

-One-in-six currently married women reported violence by their spouses; one-half of women with previous marriages reported violence by a previous spouse

-More than one-in-ten women who reported violence in a current marriage have at some point felt their lives were in danger

-Six-in-ten Canadian women who walk alone in their own area after dark feel "very" or "somewhat" worried doing so

-Women with violent fathers-in-law are at three times the risk of assault by their partners than are women with non-violent fathers-in-law

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