It took only a couple of weeks for fallout from Hurricane Sandy to wind up on the desk of Staten Island social worker Jeanne Zieff. Just before Thanksgiving, she counseled an 88-year old woman whose ...

Fears for survival, lack of resources and disbelief from friends and family can keep people in abusive relationships silent. On Nov. 16, news broke that singer Cassie accused rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs ...

Patterns of lying for all kinds of reasons in all kinds of situations.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic abuse can be defined as any pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner ...

Child emotional abuse is a pattern of parental behavior that impacts your child's emotional development and feelings of self-worth. Emotional abuse includes the impact of negative talk as well as a ...

Abuse exists on a spectrum, from relatively mild and infrequent to severe, often, and potentially life threatening. The most severe abuse does not have to be physical, but abuse may escalate to ...

Interpersonal abuse is emotional, physical, and also financial. Because intimate partner violence is about power and control, this often extends to control over money. Many domestic victims become ...

While domestic violence can be physical, it can also involve non-physical forms of abuse, which can be just as damaging. It can include emotional, verbal, or financial abuse. Domestic violence ...

The Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which became law last month, marks a significant step forwards and should transform our response to domestic abuse, which affected 2.3m people in England and Wales in 2019 ...

Sexual abuse means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions. Any sexual activity with children (persons under the age of ...

The latest violent imagery to emerge from Border Patrol’s actions at the U.S.-Mexico border warrants not only outrage and immediate action, but also deep reforms to an entrenched culture of abuse at ...

The U.S. Congress has expressed increasing concern in recent years about the rise in transnational repression—that is, cross-border actions ranging from assassinations and abductions to intimidation ...