[Chanticleer]

You call that debunking? Follow the link it provides to the CDC for some other statistics on Intimate Partner Violence (including statistics for male partner violence):

• Nearly 5.3 million incidents of IPV occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older, and 3.2 million occur among men. Most assaults are relatively minor and consist of pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, and hitting (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• In the United States every year, about 1.5 million women and more than 800,000 men are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner. This translates into about 47 IPV assaults per 1,000 women and 32 assaults per 1,000 men (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• IPV results in nearly 2 million injuries and 1,300 deaths nationwide every year (CDC 2003). Estimates indicate more than 1 million women and 371,000 men are stalked by intimate partners each year (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• IPV accounted for 20% of nonfatal violence against women in 2001 and 3% against men (Rennison 2003). From 1976 to 2002, about 11% of homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner (Fox and Zawitz 2004). In 2002, 76% of IPV homicide victims were female; 24% were male (Fox and Zawitz 2004).
• The number of intimate partner homicides decreased 14% overall for men and women in the span of about 20 years, with a 67% decrease for men (from 1,357 to 388) vs. 25% for women (from 1,600 to 1,202; Fox and Zawitz 2004). One study found that 44% of women murdered by their intimate partner had visited an emergency department within 2 years of the homicide. Of these women, 93% had at least one injury visit (Crandall et al. 2004).
• Previous literature suggests that women who have separated from their abusive partners often remain at risk of violence (Campbell et al. 2003; Fleury, Sullivan and Bybee 2000).
• Firearms were the major weapon type used in intimate partner homicides from 1981 to 1998 (Paulozzi et al. 2001).
• A national study found that 29% of women and 22% of men had experienced physical, sexual, or psychological IPV during their lifetime (Coker et al. 2002).
• Between 4% and 8% of pregnant women are abused at least once during the pregnancy (Gazmararian et al. 2000).

  This may not be evidence of a burgeoning problem -- only of a problem not yet solved. In my opinion, one case of abuse is one too many. But of course, none of these instances are of good, conservative Americans. They only involve liberal, drug-abusing, heathen hippy-types with poor diets. (/sarcasm)

  Keep believing this if you wish . . . keep whistling in the graveyard. May God help our daughters, sisters, nieces and granddaughters.

[burzum]

This may not be evidence of a burgeoning problem -- only of a problem not yet solved. In my opinion, one case of abuse is one too many.

I've had to deal with that attitude before operating nuclear reactors: "even one gamma ray is too much radiation" or "even one gun death is too much".

I don't get emotional over statistics, because I have been trained extensively on statistics (studying experimental physics). You have certainly cited many numbers, but I don't think you get the big picture. Sure, effort should continue to be made to reduce domestic violence. The same argument applies to racism, other types of violence, etc. The key point that you need to know is that domestic violence is not exponentially growing out of control. Nor is racism or other types of crimes.

I don't think you realize that this survey was made for a political point, not to document domestic violence.

Oh, and I should mention, not all crime will ever be solved. From domestic violence to shoplifting, there will always be a certain level of crime. Unless of course you have an infinite amount of money and resources.

[Alia]

In my opinion, one case of abuse is one too many.

Yeah, especially when it comes from a false accuser.

[dougmilner]

Thank you for the statistics. I was surprised that people here weren't taking Domestic Abuse seriously. It's a global problem. The stats you provided show the seriousness and hopefully some of the readers will take heed.

[Alia]

In re your post quoting stats from the CENTER OF DISEASE CONTROL: Why is the CDC doing this, involved with this? Has the the CDC morphed from studying and tracking actual diseases to.... what?

Is "domestic violence" a "disease"? It's not. So, why is the CDC reporting on this?