Seventy years ago, Albert Biderman developed the Chart of Coercion to show the mind-bending techniques used to control ...

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 ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...

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

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...

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, ...

As a frequent, but often "under the radar" form of domestic abuse, coercive control is behavior in which one spouse obstructs the other spouse's personal liberties through tactics that exert power and ...

Online company Twin Flames is under investigation by the Michigan attorney general for “coercive control” over its members. The group offers help to people looking to find a lifelong romantic partner.

Every year, thousands of New York City families are subjected to invasive home searches as part of child abuse and neglect investigations. While less than 7 percent of these investigations lead the ...

South Carolina lawmakers are making a renewed effort to pass a bill aimed at protecting women from domestic violence before it escalates to physical abuse. Senator Stephen Goldfinch has reintroduced a ...