How Abusive Men Use Coercive Control to Attack Mother–Child Relationships
Attacking the mother-child relationship has EVERYTHING to do with domestic violence
Dr Emma Katz is widely regarded as one the world’s foremost academic experts in her area of research — how coercive control impacts on children and young people.
Emma specializes in the harms caused by father-perpetrated coercive control, as well as children’s and mothers’ resistance and recovery. Read more in her book Coercive Control in Mothers’ and Children’s Lives, published by Oxford University Press.
Coercive control: A brief definition
Coercive control is a devastating form of abuse. It involves one person subjecting another person to persistently controlling behavior and repeatedly punishing them anytime they resist being controlled.
Coercive control perpetrators may be current or former intimate partners or family members, and they are more likely to be male than female. Approximately 97% of perpetrators convicted for coercive and controlling behavior in England and Wales are male.
Coercive control is at the heart of severe cases of domestic violence and abuse. The domestic violen…