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notes. Thank you so much for listening. In 2019, a Department of Child Protection study found that the number of women murdered

by an intimate partner had increased to an average of almost four women a day.

It reflected a gradual rise in the figures since 2014 after a steady reduction over the previous 40 years.

Of those killed by an intimate partner, about three quarters are female.

Homicides occur in women of all ages and among all races and ethnicities, but young women

of marginalized groups are disproportionately affected.

Perpetrators of family and domestic violence can vary in age and be from any socioeconomic

demographic, cultural background, ethnicity, or religion.

They can occupy any profession or live in any geographic region.

Perpetrators can be any gender.

However, the vast majority are male.

In 2015, homicide caused the death of 3,519 girls and women in the United States.

Across all racial ethnic groups of women, over half of female

homicides for which circumstances were known were interpersonal violence related, with about

90% of these women being killed by their current or former intimate partner. I'm Tiffany Reese,

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