Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Channel 4 documentary about Marilyn Manson features a number of women alleging he subjected them to physical, sexual and ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological ...

Abusive behavior is not always obvious. Here are some of the mechanisms controlling individuals use to keep their partners silent and disempowered. When we think of an unhealthy relationship, we often ...

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Coercive control is now considered domestic violence in New Jersey, according to bill signed into law earlier this month by Gov. Phil Murphy. Courts must now consider patterns of coercive control — ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW and Queensland ...

In December, a court acquitted Nengsy Lim, 45, for the crime of “nagging” her husband. The Indonesian woman had been charged with causing her husband psychological harm with her repeated scoldings. A ...

Anne Grant was executive director of the Women’s Center of Rhode Island (1988-1996), when she also served in the RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence and wrote the “Overcoming Abuse” column in The ...