Sentence examples for non-severe violence from inspiring English sources

The prevalence of severe violence was lower than that of non-severe violence.

Rates of non-severe violence were very high for lone parents with children.

Alarmingly, rates of non-severe violence and emotional abuse are highest in the youngest cohort of women.

Also of concern is the finding that lone mothers living with young children experience greater rates of severe and non-severe violence and emotional abuse.

For non-severe violence an age gradient was found, in that the youngest age group of women had the highest rate (24.1% for Canada) and women over 45 years had the lowest rates (3.3%).

Women born in Canada reported higher rates of all types of violence than those not born in Canada: for example, the rate of non-severe violence was 8.8% as compared with 6.2% among those not born in Canada (p < 0.01).

The types of violence included in calculation of rates were non-severe physical violence, severe physical violence, "any physical or sexual violence" (non-severe plus severe), emotional abuse, emotional or financial abuse, and "any" intimate partner abuse (physical, emotional or financial).

Any non-severe partner violence was reported by 8.4% of Canadian women.

In Manitoba/Saskatchewan, 67.7% of lone-parent respondents claimed non-severe physical violence from an intimate partner in the previous five years.

Overall, for Canada there was little difference in the rate of non-severe physical violence reported by women who did not identify themselves as a visible minority (8.4%) compared with women who did (7.9%) (p > 0.05).

For example, in Quebec, the rate of non-severe physical violence among respondents was 23.7% for women with no current partner living in the household, compared with 11.4% for those with a common-law partner (p < 0.001) and 2.0% for those currently married (p < 0.001).