New research shows children who experience coercive control from parents often believe it is normal parental discipline, making help-seeking particularly difficult.

Domestic abuse has a higher rate of repeat offending than any other crime and encompasses a vast range of behaviours. While society immediately recognises some of these actions as abuse, other types ...

Abusers use "love-like" acts to entrap victims in coercive control domestic abuse relationships. Coercive control ...

Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

What does the Domestic Violence Act say about gaslighting? The short answer: nothing! But that is not the end of the ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to remove allegations that could not be immediately verified. BOSTON (SHNS) – Domestic abuse victims could gain expanded protections — namely, securing a ...

"In the beginning," said Emmy Marie, "there was a tremendous amount of love bombing. He made me feel like he understood me better than anyone, like he loved everything about me on a deep, deep level, ...

When it comes to tackling abuse and violence against women and girls (VAWG), it's clear there's still a lot of work to be done, especially when it comes to ensuring non-physical forms of abuse are ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I traditionally do a series of columns on this very important but often misunderstood part of the law and society. Six years ago I wrote about the ...