Explore the lived experience of coercive control and learn strategies for supporting protective parents' connections with children who have been manipulated.

A recent study published in Sex Roles suggests that the general public often underestimates the dangers of controlling ...

Callum Fairleigh, 34, was sentenced in February to two years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 15 months, becoming ...

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

Often, coercion and violence flow throughout toxic family systems, involving combinations of adults and children. The term “coercive control” has been used to describe the dominating tactics of ...

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 ...

In May 2007, my cherished childhood friend, Shelby, was murdered by her coercively controlling, abusive, estranged husband. The heinous act was all premeditated. Weeks after she finally left him, ...

There were 49,557 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, according to domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid. This is an increase from ...

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