Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse with a cumulative impact. It is not defined by one or two or three incidents. It is more like death by a thousand cuts. The abuser presents a credible ...

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 ...

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.