Domestic abuse is not easier to cope with when it's not physical, Jacinta Tynan, The Age, May 23, 2016

Greater public awareness about the unacceptability of male violence against women is gradually shifting community attitudes so that the shame is moving from the victim to where it belongs - with the perpetrator.  However, there is less awareness of, and accountability for "emotional abuse" - yelling, belittling, manipulating, humiliating, financially controlling.  Tynan writes that it is just as wounding - and just as rife.  Read the full article here.