You Have Been Reading Up on Domestic Violence Statistics for a Presentation

question 57

Multiple Choice

You have been reading up on domestic violence statistics for a presentation that you are going to make in your family studies class next week. Which of the following will you report to your class?

• A)Overall, women are almost twice as likely to be victimized by an intimate partner as are men.
• B)Over one-quarter of women have been raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner.
• C)Some of the smallest sex differences in the rates of victimization occur in the most dangerous type of assaults, such as being beaten up, choked, or threatened, or having a a gun used on them.
• D)Overall, minority women are less likely to be victims of violence.
• E)Violence is less common in same-sex relationships than in heterosexual ones.

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