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Domestic Violence Training Project Quiz
DV Resources from Academic Family Medicine Mail-list Archive
Domestic Violence Training Project Quiz
TRUE or FALSE
Select the question to read the answer.
- A woman is beaten every 7.4 minutes in the U. S.
- When a woman leaves the relationship, the abuse usually ends.
- Battered women use emergency medical services more often than non-trauma services.
- Pregnant women are generally abused less frequently or less severely.
- Battered women are rarely sexually abused by the batterer.
- Battering precedes 10% of suicide attempts by women.
- Many women are battered because of their drug and alcohol abuse and/or abuse by the batterer.
- Batterers rarely abuse their children.
- Physicians, social workers and other service providers are required by law to report suspected battering of women.
- Women who come from abusive families of origin are more likely to seek out abusive mates.
- Men who come from abusive families are no more likely to be abusers than men from non-violent families.
- Battered women are at higher risk for AIDS.
- Ten percent of homeless women are homeless due to domestic violence.
- A woman can generally get into a battered woman's shelter to escape abuse.
- Men and women are equally violent in relationships.
- People in gay and lesbian relationships are less likely to be abused than people in straight relationships.
- Relationship violence by adolescents (battering and date rape) is not a predictor of adult violence.
- Battering is rarely life-threatening.
- Women who injure or kill abusers in self-defense are not likely to be prosecuted.
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