Throughout her childhood, Emily was often caught in the middle of her two mothers’ dysfunctional and abusive relationship. After their separation, her biological mother, Lisa, frequently expressed ...

All children suffer in families where one partner abuses and controls the other (Stark, 2023). In our work, we have seen that first-born child often suffer the most. In coercive control, one person ...

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More than 1,000 teenagers and young people have reported experiencing coercive control by their peers, including friends, according to support service Kids Helpline. The data, obtained exclusively by ...

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A recently introduced Colorado bill seeks to require judges to consider "misgendering" as a form of "coercive control" during child custody disputes. If passed, the bill would pose a major threat to ...

Sue and Lloyd Clarke had no idea what coercive control was before their daughter Hannah experienced it – now they're welcoming new laws to outlaw the ‘insidious’ abuse. “We called it mind games,” ...

The federal government has introduced a major justice reform bill that would create new criminal offences targeting coercive control in intimate relationships, add “femicide” to the Criminal Code and ...