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.

While there is growing understanding around the use of coercive control in intimate partner violence, less is known about how children experience this kind of abuse. Coercive control is a pattern of ...

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A federal private member’s bill that aims to give children a say in divorce proceedings — while combatting the effects of coercive control and domestic violence — could have a positive effect on the ...