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An expert in domestic violence and abuse explains how you can help those you are worried about.
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It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
one in four perpetrators are repeat offenders, yet less than 1% of perpetrators receive a specialist intervention to challenge or change their behaviour.
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Through choose-your-own-adventure stories, perpetrators of domestic abuse can challenge and understand their behaviour.
Evangelical church teachings create fertile ground for domestic violence, its justification and its concealment.
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Evangelical Christian churches say a man’s authority is in God’s plan.
The child protection system looks at children on a case-by-case basis. This approach doesn’t work.
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Rather than only reacting on a case-by-case basis, we need to recognise the root of child neglect and abuse comes from social inequities.
Women and children are 14 times more likely than men to die in a disaster.
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Natural disasters amplify the conditions leading to domestic violence. Yet Australia’s disaster policies are “gender blind”.
Conservative Liberal MP Kevin Andrews and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson are leading a parliamentary inquiry into family law.
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The consequences of the parental alienation theory can lead to children getting a court order to visit or live with an abusive parent.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi poses with Rep. Katie Hill and her husband, Kenny Heslep, in January 2019.
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Just as domestic violence was once misunderstood and tolerated, many today fail to grasp how nude photographs can be wielded as weapons of abuse.
Pauline Hanson has argued mothers often make up accusations of family violence to deny fathers contact with their children.
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There have already been two recent inquires into family court, but none of their recommendations have been rolled out.
Financial abuse can be misinterpreted as ‘sharing finances’, which can indicate a relationship in the criteria of the couple rule.
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Tying Centrelink payments to a partner can trap women in violent relationships.
Men fear they will be accused of being the perpetrators.
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Many men who experience domestic abuse or violence are too embarrassed to seek help.
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Clingy behaviour can be narcissistic, too.
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Lawyers and jurors need to know what causes people to behave the way they do.
Women who have been victims of domestic abuse may experience depression, anxiety and substance abuse, among other psychological impacts.
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There is a clear link between women who have experienced domestic violence and mental illness. This link needs to be better addressed in mental health services.
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But questions remain on how well a scheme to provide victims with information about abusive partners is working.
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The law needs updating – but great care is required when it comes to consent and sadomasochistic sex.
In Myanmar, gender inequality is fed by a deeply held concept called ‘hpon,’ which considers men to be spiritually and morally better than women.
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In Myanmar, spousal abuse is legal and stigma stop most women from reporting sexual violence. A bill championed by feminists but long stalled in Parliament may soon give women their basic rights.
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944), the film that inspired the now widely used term.
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The term ‘gaslighting’ is now liberally used but what does it mean and where did it come from?
Over 47% of women in Kenya have experienced physical or sexual violence by their partner.
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A study in Kenya found that the lower men ranked themselves in society, the more violent they were with their intimate partners.
Can football really have an impact on society?
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For the millions celebrating on the Champs-Elysées last month, Frenchness was not just an idea, it was an intense shared experience. But what happens to that identity when the celebrations end?