It took only a couple of weeks for fallout from Hurricane Sandy to wind up on the desk of Staten Island social worker Jeanne Zieff. Just before Thanksgiving, she counseled an 88-year old woman whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fears for survival, lack of resources and disbelief from friends and family can keep people in abusive relationships silent. Fears ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic abuse can be defined as any pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner ...

Abuse exists on a spectrum, from relatively mild and infrequent to severe, often, and potentially life threatening. The most severe abuse does not have to be physical, but abuse may escalate to ...

Emotional abuse is a quiet, frequently unrecognized and therefore unnamed, form of abuse that can, nevertheless, have devastating consequences for the abused. Further, emotional abuse can lead to and ...

Domestic abuse has a higher rate of repeat offending than any other crime and encompasses a vast range of behaviours. While society immediately recognises some of these actions as abuse, other types ...

Research shows that not all perpetrators of sexual abuse target a single type of victim; some target victims across multiple ...

Emotional abuse does not just hurt your feelings in the moment, it can quietly reshape your body for years. When you grow up ...

Sexual abuse means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions. Any sexual activity with children (persons under the age of ...

Iowa lawmakers have until April 19 to pass a law to help Boy Scouts abuse survivors. Some Iowa lawmakers are making a last-minute effort to ensure Iowans who were sexually abused by Boy Scouts leaders ...