Statistical Reasons to Take a Women's Self-Defense Course
There are many reasons women take women's self defense courses. The motivation in many of these decisions are knowing the statistics. If women knew of the number of attacks each year on women, women's self defense course would have full attendance. Sexual assault and domestic violence are two of the most common types of violence that women will experience. Other assaults happen during crimes such as robberies or muggings. The assault may come from a stranger, but most of the time the violence is from a person the woman knows or from her own family.
There were almost five million acts of violence reported in the United States last year which involved women twelve years old and older. Three quarters of women who were attacked while by themselves and half of the women attacked by multiple assailants were attacked by people that they knew.
