Families, Abuse and Violence

Intimate Partner Violence

• The Economic Implications of Domestic Abuse (Pacific Standard)
• What Is Verbal Abuse? How to Recognize Abusive Behavior and What to Do Next (Healthline)
• Domestic abusers are using smart home gadgets to exert control over victims (TechSpot)
• Are You a Victim of Gaslighting? (U.S. News & World Report)
• This Is the Difference Between Normal Fighting and Verbal Abuse (Vice)
• The story of my abuse is also the story of the millions of victims who still can't speak out (NBC)
• We need to talk about sexual assault in marriage (Vox)
• Battered woman syndrome: Definition, symptoms, and getting help (Medical News Today)
• Sheltering men from a little-known danger: Domestic violence (The Los Angeles Times)
• Spanking can lead to relationship violence (CNN)
• How Gaslighting Affects Your Mental Health (Motto)
• Why We Should Be Talking About Emotional Abuse (Huff Post)
• Domestic Violence, Silence And The Black Community: It's Time To Break The Cycle (Essence)
• Lasting health impact of domestic violence (The Daily Telegraph)
• If You’re A Domestic Violence Survivor With Unexplained Symptoms, Read This (HuffPost)
• 'Why It Took Me Two Years To Realise I Was In An Abusive Relationship' (Elle)
• The war on drugs failed. It's time for a war on abuse (CNN)
• Why do people stay in abusive relationships? (The Medium)

Child Abuse

• Childhood Emotional Neglect: What It Is and How to Heal (Psychology Today)
  
• Neglected children end up with 'smaller brains' (BBC)

• I have survived the most unimaginable things in the only way that my body knew how (Metro UK)
• When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic)
• Corporal punishment and physical abuse have negative impact on children's academic performance (PsyPost)
• What is Child Neglect (Verywell)
• Overcoming The Pain Of Childhood Emotional Neglect (Scary Mommy)

Child Sexual Violence

• My Father Was a Child Molester and I Put Him in Prison (Vice)
• What happened when I discovered my brother was a sexual predator (The Guardian)

Sibling Violence

• Sibling Bullying (Bustle)
• Sibling Abuse (American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress)

Trauma Effects

• Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma (Parents)

• How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect You as an Adult (Psychology Today)

• Healing from the trauma of Parentification (Psychology Today)
• 6 Ways Childhood Abuse and Neglect Leads to Self-Blame in Adulthood (Psych Central)
• I'm Still Piecing Myself Together After Living Through Years of Childhood Trauma (The Thirty)
• How People Learn to be Resilient (The New Yorker)
• Extreme stress during childhood can hurt social learning for years to come (The Conversation)
• What Are the Effects of Childhood Trauma? (Very Well Mind)
• The Endlessly Lonely Could Be Living With Unresolved Childhood Trauma (Huff Post)
• Understanding the Victim Complex (ThoughtCo)
• Root problem: Link found between childhood trauma and schizophrenia (Asian News International)
• Building resilience early in life can help children cope with trauma (The Conversation)
• How childhood trauma can affect mental and physical health into adulthood (The Conversation)
• The steps that can help adults heal from childhood trauma (The Conversation)

Other Intimate Relationships

• Gaslighting Happens In Friendships Too. Beware Of These Signs (Refinery 29)

Culture and Violence

• Can A Woman's Rising Social Status Bring Down Rates of Domestic Violence? (NPR)