“I had sex with him last night because I was scared not to.” Those were the words of a woman shaking at the other end of a Zoom call with me. As a divorce coach, I’ve heard this many times before — ...

The domestic violence field lost an important advocate with the passing of Andrew Cicchetti, Ph.D., in November 2024. Below are some of his ideas, with quotes taken from our personal correspondence, ...

The state of New York has long been at the forefront of cultural and legal progress. Yet, for all of its claim to fame as the center of the world, New York has some antiquated divorce laws that need ...

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The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

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 ...

He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers. By Richard Sandomir Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence ...

The UK was the first country in the world to criminalise coercive control. So why are we still not paying attention to this insidious form of violence? We were in the smoking area, a place where ...