In 2004, when I was 16 years old, I spent 78 days in Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center. Twenty-two years later, I am ...

(NewsNation) — After 16 children described as "feral" were rescued from an Ohio home, attention has turned to the parents and grandparents. Family members of Elizabeth Sider have said she was ...

Family members of Elizabeth Sider have said she was “indoctrinated” by her husband’s family after the couple married when she was just 15. The family members did not give details regarding how they ...

Reforms to Canada’s Criminal Code will make coercive control in intimate relationships and sharing sexual deepfakes without consent a crime, and categorize femicides and murders involving coercive ...

Bill C-16, the Protecting Victims Act, passed third reading in the House of Commons in June 2026 and is now proceeding through Senate review. Among its most significant reforms is the proposed ...

Some states are banking on the idea that you can stop domestic violence even before it leads to blows. The controversial, fledgling approach to domestic violence prosecution wants to make family ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — Almost two years to the day that Mica Miller’s life ended at a Robeson County state park, her sister told South Carolina lawmakers they could have helped prevent tragedy. “Mica ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WMBF) - Advocates are encouraging South Carolina lawmakers to expand the state’s current definition of domestic abuse, claiming a proposed law could have saved a life. Bill 702, known to ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by ...

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 ...

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 ...