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To the Editor: Dr Amowitz and colleagues¹ reported that the rate of domestic violence in southern Iraq is 5%, which is nearly 7 times the rate of 0.77% in the United States. Because such rates depend on the definition of domestic violence, they may not provide a complete picture of such incidents. For instance, a survey conducted by the National Institute of Justice² reported that 2.8% of US women attending colleges had experienced complete or attempted rape in a 7-month period of school year 1996-1997. This is equivalent to an incidence of 4.9% per year. Of these women, 22% had more than 1 episode. This does not include assaults and stalkings.

The same survey also found that 1.5 million US women per year are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner. However, because some women experience more than 1 rape in a 1-year period, there are an estimated 4.8 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jukaku Tayeb, MD
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Shelby Township, Mich

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