Viewing coercive control as just one more manifestation of domestic abuse is to utterly misunderstand what is happening in a victim’s life, says Jane Monckton-Smith [Internet Archive link], senior lecturer in criminology and an expert in coercive control at the university of Gloucestershire. She argues that coercion and control are the very heart of how… Continue reading Coercion and control are the very heart of how an abuser operates: they’re not an added extra.
Tag: systemic abuse
To be used for abuse by the systems of society: legal, disability, health, welfare. But not churches and denominations as they are covered by the tag Spiritual Abuse.
A Very Urgent Prayer Request
This is a rather unusual blog post, but the urgency of the situation requires it. Please pray for one of our friends, a survivor of long time sustained abuse, who was slapped with a HUGE legal bill by her ex-attorney for a divorce that the abuser dragged out on and and and on in the… Continue reading A Very Urgent Prayer Request
