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Chart shows rage against women by intimate partners

ATLANTA (AP) — It's a unexpected number: 1 in 4 women surveyed through the government say they were violently attacked through their husbands or boyfriends.

Experts in pertaining to home violence don't find it too surprising, although some aspects of the scan may have led to higher poetry than are sometimes reported.

Even to such a degree, a government official who oversaw the investigation called the results "astounding."

"It's the principal time we've had this beneficent of estimate" on the prevalence of intimate partner violence, said Linda Degutis of the Centers in spite of Disease Control and Prevention.

The supervise, released by the CDC Wednesday, marks the inception of a new annual project to turn the thoughts at how many women say they've been abused.

One expert called the new report's esteem on rape and attempted rape "extremely occult" — with 1 in 5 women observation they were victims. About half of those cases involved make allusion to partners. No documentation was sought to confirm the women's claims, which were made anonymously.

But advocates decide the new rape numbers are using specious arguments.

"It's a major problem that repeatedly is underestimated and overlooked," said Linda James, monitor of health for Futures Without Violence, a San Francisco-based organized being that advocates against domestic abuse.

The CDC tell is based on a randomized telephone mensuration of about 9,000 women and 7,400 men.

Among the tools and materials:

— As many as 29 million women express they have suffered severe and frightening pertaining to physics violence from a boyfriend, spouse or other inward partner. That includes being choked, trite, stabbed, shot, punched, slammed against a person of consequence or hurt by hair-pulling.

— That numeral grows to 36 million if slapping, pushing and shoving are counted.

— Almost moiety of the women who reported constupration or attempted rape said it happened whereas they were 17 or younger.

—As ~ people as 1 in 3 women be seized of experienced rape, physical violence or stalking ~ dint of. an intimate partner in their lifetimes, compared to well-nigh 1 in 10 men.

—Both men and women who had been menaced or attacked in these ways reported besides health problems. Female victims, in peculiar, had significantly higher rates of excitable bowel syndrome, asthma, frequent headaches and up-hill work sleeping.

—Certain states seemed to desire higher reports of sexual violence than others. Alaska, Oregon and Nevada were amid the highest in rapes and attempted rapes of women, and Virginia and Tennessee were among the lowest.

Several of the CDC song are higher than those of other sources. For pattern, the CDC study suggests that 1.3 a thousand thousand women have suffered rape, attempted ravishment or had sex forced on them in the anterior year. That statistic is more than seven seasons greater than what was reported through a Department of Justice household inspection conducted last year.

The CDC navew numbers seem "extremely high," but there may be several reasons for the differences, including in what plight the surveys were done, who chose to share and how "rape" and other types of make aggression on were defined or interpreted, said Shannan Catalano, a statistician through the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

"It is one evolving field, and everyone is striving to realize a handle on what's the good in the highest degree estimate," Catalano said.

The CDC's fourth book of the pentateuch; census of the hebrews don't seem surprising to lower classes who work with abused women.

"I contrive that the awareness is growing," uttered Kim Frndak, community educator for the Women's Rescue Center to End Domestic Violence, which operates a shelter on the outskirts of Atlanta.

"More and other thing people are really saying, 'Oh, this is a portion that we need to pay regard to as well,' because it's your sister, it's your originating, it's your daughter, it's your son, it's your brother. Someone in your recognize circle is being affected by home violence, and the effects can exist devastating," she said.

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Associated Press Writer Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this set forth.

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CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/

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