When I first began researching domestic abuse in 2020, 20 women had been killed in domestic homicides. Six years on, that ...

I’ve heard women describe years of psychological torture. Partners who controlled what they wore, who they spoke to, how they spent every penny. Men who monitored phones, isolated them from family and ...

Hawaii has criminalized the concept while other states have incorporated it into family or civil court definitions of ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

Love bombing is considered to be an abuse tactic wherein one person showers the other with affection, compliments, gifts, and attention in order to gain their trust and control or manipulate them. The ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...