DID YOU KNOW?

• About 16,000 people die annually due to homicide in the U.S. and approximately 71% are between the ages of 17 and 44. The result is thousands of children losing a parent through violence.

• The U.S. department of justice reported that 9% of all homicides from 1993-2003 were spousal murders.

• Approximately 3,000 children experience a parent, ex-spouse, or partner killing another (uxoricide) every year.

• 64% of uxoricide’s occurred with the child in the home and 43% of the children witnessed the murder or found the body.

• 1,363 victims of 9/11 were identified as the parents of 2,752 bereaved children.

• The number of parentless children has increased from 3.7% in 1980 to 4.1%.

• A study in 1999 estimated that 1.9 million children under the age of 18 have lost one or more parent.

• Approximately 1,000-1,500 murder suicides are estimated to occur in the U.S.

• As of May 2006, an estimated 1,600 American children have lost a parent(s) to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

• As of November 2006, there were an estimated 500,000 orphans of LIVING parents.

• In 2004, over 1,000 children registered with The Twin Towers Orphan Fund for assistance as a result of having been orphaned in the 9/11 attack.

• In 2003, 186,000 deportations left tens of thousands of children with a missing parent or parents.

• In 2000, 1.5 million U.S. children had an incarcerated parent. Between 1990-2001, the number of women in prison increased by 106%.

• In 2002, 8% of African-American children in the U.S. were not living with a biological parent.

• 97,376 children in the U.S. were left motherless by AIDS through 1998.