A judge in Southern California embraced a new state law allowing victims to claim coercive control, that was designed to tip the balance in favor of women seeking child custody and restraining orders.
A California law broadening domestic violence protections could help restrain abusers who manipulate their partners financially and psychologically. Two women who sought remedies through the courts share stories of a justice system stacked against them.
One immigrant endured more than two decades of psychological and financial abuse by her husband yet didn’t think she was a victim. Legal safeguards are limited and came too late to help her.
States across the country are considering equal shared parenting in custody cases. One young Kentucky couple serves as a test case.
The pandemic has brought into sharp focus what has been called the shadow pandemic: the staggering rise of domestic violence incidents across the world.
This article was produced with support from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund.
Maiya Ossipova was a divorced woman in her early forties with three kids when she met her future American husband on a dating website.
A Mexican woman details the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of two husbands.
Mexicana relata abuso físico y mental en dos matrimonios.
Survivors of domestic assault and their advocates say Ernst's story is yet more evidence that domestic violence can happen to anyone.
