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 ...

Over the last several years, we have become familiar with the term toxic workplace. And typically, the related bullying and ...

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 ...

While domestic violence can be physical, it can also involve non-physical forms of abuse, which can be just as damaging. It can include emotional, verbal, or financial abuse. Domestic violence ...

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 ...

Most people associate childhood with comfort. With bedtime stories, safe arms, and being told they’re loved just for existing. But not everyone grows up that way. For some, childhood was a constant ...

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 ...