To the younger women of DU:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

110. Compared to what?

I think your claim that millions more are beaten every day is almost certainly wrong, probably by about three orders of magnitude! I would guestimate that for every man who kills his wife on a given day, the number who beat them is probably about a thousand, give or take one power of ten but almost certainly not three. So I am pretty confident that at least one of your two figures is massively wrong.

And guns, traffic and drugs also harm a lot more people than they kill. So unless either the ratio of damage to death is much higher for domestic violence than for the others, or your three-a-day figure is a significant underestimate (which it may be - as I said, I'm pleasantly surprised it's so low), I'd quibble slightly with "enormous", I'm afraid. It's 1/40 the number of women who die from breast cancer, as a fourth example.

To put it in perspective, three deaths per day is one death per three million people per year, (or one death per one and a half million women), or about a thousand deaths a year all told.

So "large", yes - a thousand deaths a year is not a small number, even in a country the size of America. But, if your figure is accurate, then to be honest I read "three women a day are killed by their partners in America" as "America has done very well indeed tackling domestic violence, and should keep up the good work", not "America is doing something wrong on domestic violence, and needs to change tack".