Statistics are meant to make a point.

Take this statistic for instance; 4.8 million women are either physically abused or raped by an intimate partner each year that according to The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 4,800,000 is a big number no matter how you express it.

But let’s now take a real close look at that number.  If 4,800,000 women are physically abused or raped by an intimate partner annually that equates to 13,150 women who are physically abused or raped by an intimate partner each day. That’s right 13,150 abused women each and every day.

Now if 13,150 women are physically abused or raped by an intimate partner each day 547 women are physically abused or raped every hour of every day. And finally that means that 9 women are physically abused or raped by an intimate partner every minute of every day!

I was one of those statistics!