Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Distressed woman trapped in coercive control, looking anxious and isolated. Robert Kaiser, Women's Safety Expert and Author Personal safety expert Robert Kaiser shedslight on coercive control and its ...

All children suffer in families where one partner abuses and controls the other (Stark, 2023). In our work, we have seen that first-born child often suffer the most. In coercive control, one person ...

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