A middle schooler’s boyfriend asks to borrow $35 of saved babysitting money and then never pays it back. A college freshman’s girlfriend asks him to miss his shift at the local fast-food restaurant to ...

I need help and I have nobody I can ask for guidance. I’ve been married 18 years, and I’ve dealt with verbal, emotional and financial abuse. I’m 48, he’s 84. He’s very controlling, will lose his ...

For this project, Ayesha Scott received funding from Kantar NZ and collaborated with Good Shepherd NZ and BNZ. Economic harm – restricting access to, sabotaging or exploiting another person’s ...

A mentor once told me that we take better care of our pets than we do older victims of mistreatment. As a researcher, I have sat across from people, including grown men, crying while recounting ...

One in 10 older Americans experience abuse, and financial abuse is one of the most common forms. According to the National Council on Aging, up to 5 million Americans suffer from financial elder abuse ...

As Jenny sat at her mother’s deathbed, she received a call from her ex-partner demanding she send him £10,000. Despite the relationship ending a year previously, Jenny was still being financially ...

Many survivors are not broken by abuse; they are burdened by it, carrying relational labour that was never meant to be theirs ...

As a matrimonial and family law attorney, I often meet with clients whose spouses have excluded them from financial decisions, refused to provide them information about assets, liabilities, and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...