Co-authored by Lisa Aronson Fontes and Julie Nee. No divorce is fun, but most are reasonably amicable. Divorcing a domestic abuser is another story altogether. After separation, abusers take ...

All children suffer in families where one partner abuses and controls the other (Stark, 2023). In our work, we have seen that first-born child often suffer the most. In coercive control, one person ...

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...