But...muh *tingles* !
(Incidentally, in the interests of exploring all cofounding variables... what about the states not reported? What about female-on-male violence? What about homesexual / lesbian relationships ?)
...and what about (ahem) a) "honor killings" in, umm, err, "the community of the ROP" ?
b) FGM?
c) Cologne- or Rotherham- like events ?
I think Jocelyn Elders was on the right track about that. Where she failed was in believing anyone needed the Federal government to demonstrate how that's supposed to work. Still when you consider what the LGBTQwerties are up to in schools now, it does make you yearn for "the good old days" when the only taboo public schools were advocating teaching about was masturbation.
States not reported are white, have small urban populations where most of the people are probably married. That takes hubbies out of the statistics, which is not what they want.
As for the Religion of Peace® I'm going to go waaaaaaayyyyy out on a limb and suggest that in (alleged) cultures in which the testimony of a woman is worse less than half that of a dog, and everything inflicted on the fair sex is "for their own good" there is not much reporting available to CDC. There might be some bragging to their cousins about spousal abuse (if they aren't married to them) but certainly no government numbers.