Ellen Schwartz & Maliha Janjua: Coercive Control and Kids

Ellen Schwartz spent 37 years as a family law attorney before she had a name for what she kept seeing. Cases that were not assaults, were not terroristic threats, were not quite harassment, but where a client was clearly afraid and clearly controlled. Reading Rachel Louise Snyder's No Visible Bruises gave her the vocabulary, and she has spent the years since working to get coercive control into New Jersey law. This episode has two guests, both from Women Aware, a domestic violence agency serv...