Battered Mothers Resource Fund, Inc.

Helping mothers and children who need to escape to safety...

Battered Mothers Resource Fund, Inc. (BMRF) is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization dedicated to assisting battered mothers and their children find safe haven and locate community resources to help them make a fresh start.

We strive to improve quality of life for battered mothers and their children through referrals and linkage to domestic violence shelters, advocacy organizations, counseling, support groups and agencies that provide women with job training, housing assistance and basic needs.

Freedom Ranch of Missouri

Join us in creating a safe haven for battered mothers from across the U.S. Learn all about this exciting new project at the new Freedom Ranch Website.

Why Battered Mothers need our help...

The chilling statistics...

• Domestic Violence kills10 women every day in the United States.

• A woman is battered every nine seconds in the United States.

• 73% of family violence victims are female.

• Over 50% of battered women in shelters have reported the presence of child abuse in their homes.

• About 75% of all family violence occurred in or near the victim’s home.

• In 70% of the families in which the wife is abused, there is also physical abuse of the children.

• Nearly 50% of the households where Domestic Violence occurs there are children under 12 years old.

• The average age among sons or daughters killed by a parent was 7 years old.

• 4 out of 5 child victims killed by a parent were under the age of 13.

• 67% of abused children are being parented by battered women. Of the abused children, they are three times more likely to have been abused by their fathers.

• Domestic Violence is widespread and occurs among all socioeconomic groups.