20% of women raped? Don't think so.

  How many people do you know who've been raped?
  According to new CDC statistics, 20% of women have been raped and 1 in 71 males have been raped at least once.

Nearly 20 percent of women in the United States have been raped at least once and one in four has been severely attacked by an intimate partner, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday. 

Almost 80 percent of female victims were first raped before age 25 and more than half were raped by a current or former partner, according to the CDC's analysis of data from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey of 18,049 men and women in the United States in 2010.

  Why do these figures seem so suspect, considering in our practical lives we know so few people who've suffered this kind of violence? 
  Well, most likely because at the root of these bizarre statistics is money and control over people's lives.
  Christina Hoff Sommers exposed the truth about a particular "study" in her excellent book "Who Stole Feminism." From Wikipedia:

Sommers writes in Who Stole Feminism that an often-mentioned March of Dimes study which says that "domestic violence is the leading cause of birth defects," does not, in fact, exist. She writes that violence against women does not peak during the Super Bowl, which she describes as another popular urban legend. Sommers also writes that these statements about domestic violence were used in shaping the Violence Against Women Act, which allocates $1.6 billion a year in federal funds for ending domestic violence. Sommers writes that feminists assert and the media report that approximately 150,000 women die each year from anorexia, an apparent distortion of the American Anorexia and Bulimia Association's figure that 150,000 females have some degree of anorexia.^{[16][17][21][22]} A Reason magazine review stated that "the answer to the question in the book's title is, nobody stole feminism. The liberals gave it away. Their abdication of principles and cowardly fear of reprisals so ably chronicled by Sommers sealed the deal."^[16]

  By conflating the figures and creating "studies" to prove their theses, the founders of "non profits" and government entities not only establish their raison d'etre, they can also shape public opinion on policy.
  The phony (now discredited) study most often quoted by the wife-beater claimer crowd says that the most brutal day of the year for beaten women is Super Bowl Sunday.
  But for years the supporters of that study used it to prop up their phony claims, trawl for more money and if they don't get it, claim that the mean Republicans want women to die, beaten to a pulp by drunk wannabe football players far past their prime.