Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Parliament have voted unanimously to criminalize coercive control, a pattern of behaviour that can perpetuate domestic ...

Sean Bradford's ex-partner disclosed five years of physical and psychological abuse, police say.

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

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 ...

-Among people who experienced coercive control, close to 42.9 % also report physical violence — meaning controlling behavior often precedes or accompanies more overt assault (according to PMC).

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.

Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability. “We know that the types of behaviours that those perpetrators use are ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

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 ...

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