How Coercive Control Harms Child Safety and Wellbeing – an interview with Dr Emma Katz

Emma [Katz] is the world’s leading academic expert on how coercive control harms children and mother-child relationships, and how these harms can be overcome. Emma’s approach to coercive control is strongly anti-victim blaming. Her work is based on an understanding that victims and survivors are ordinary people who were unjustly harmed. While recognising the full… Continue reading How Coercive Control Harms Child Safety and Wellbeing – an interview with Dr Emma Katz

Don Hennessy on systemic abuse in Ireland

This post is about social workers and the justice system taking children of protective mothers. While it focuses on Ireland, we can all learn from it because the Irish Republic is not the only country where the system is set up to favour abusers. The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice (ABC) is an… Continue reading Don Hennessy on systemic abuse in Ireland