"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

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 ...

A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation that would expand the state’s definition of domestic violence to include “coercive control”— a pattern of behavior used to isolate, control and ...

From Toowoomba to Roma’s oil and gas field sites, people travelling along the highway may soon see bright pink trucks carry a ...

Authorities are struggling to successfully prosecute domestic and family offenders under Australia’s new Coercive Control laws. Despite recording nearly 300 incidents last year, only nine coercive ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...

42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control, according to new research released this week. The study, published in Wiley Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly ...

Domestic abuse is insidious, with a few warning signs within a new relationship overlooked in that hazy, rose-tinted euphoric stage of falling in love.

Alexandra Sidoti, senior ombudsman with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, said it is “a bit of a funny space around these” because sometimes it is not clear to see the conduct or it is ...