What percentage of battered women are abused while pregnant?
The Berrios and Grady (1991) study found that 10% of victims presenting to a hospital emergency room with injuries due to intimate partner violence were pregnant at the time of the abusive incident; 30% of intimate partner violence victims reported that they had been abused during a previous pregnancy; and 5% reported having had a miscarriage as a result of abuse by an intimate romantic partner. In Walker’s (1984) sample of battered women, 59% reported that battering occurred during their first pregnancy, 63% reported battering during their second pregnancy, and 55% reported battering during their third pregnancy. Walker (1984) also found that if battering occurred during pregnancy, it was likely to occur across all three trimesters. What do intimate partner homicide rates look like? An examination of 20 years (1976-1995) of homicide data from the FBI s Uniform Crime Reporting System s Supplemental Homicide Report (Puzone, Saltzman, Kresnow, Thompson, & Mercy, 2000) indicated that: • T
