The International Coercive Control Conference

09/10/2026

Great summary from former conference speaker about a former book club book

09/08/2026

Femicide:“the misogynist killing of women by men,” is not always an isolated tragedy, but part of a wider system of misogyny and violence against women. Naming femicide means making that violence visible.

09/06/2026

09/04/2026

Some states already explicitly recognize coercive control in certain domestic-violence, protection-order or family-court laws. Coercive control does not suddenly become less dangerous when you cross a state line.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/24/coercive-control-laws-domestic-abusers/89781299007/

08/27/2026

The vast majority of parents who homeschool their children don’t abuse them. But for those who are intent on inflicting harm, homeschooling provides a highly effective guise. Child abuse and neglect are crimes of isolation; when children are kept home, they are far more difficult for social workers to interview away from the influence of their caregivers and far fewer people are able to lay eyes on them.

In every state, even in the midst of an ongoing CPS investigation, parents or guardians can withdraw their child from school to homeschool them. In 48 states, a parent can do this even if they’ve been convicted of a crime against a child. Once they are homeschooling their child, there is no requirement that the child receive regular wellness checks.

To date, the Coalition for Responsible Home Education has logged 500 cases of abuse and 200 fatalities among the homeschool population. Among the fatality cases, half involved children who were recently pulled out of school.

In the past year, cases like these have increasingly made national news. In February, first responders were called to a house fire in Connecticut. Inside, they found a man in his early 30s who weighed 68 pounds. He told police officers he had been confined at home since the fourth grade, when his stepmother pulled him from public school. Before that, his teachers had called DCF at least 20 times to report signs of abuse and starvation. In May, a similar case made headlines in New Jersey: An 18-year-old girl ran away from home and a neighbor brought her to the hospital. She later told police she had been trapped at home and subject to physical and sexual assault since the sixth grade, when she was withdrawn into homeschooling.

Revisit Amelia Schonbek’s 2025 report on the legal loophole that allows children to be pulled from school during an open CPS investigation: https://nymag.visitlink.me/Jr4pfk

05/06/2026

Matthew and Thy Mitchell and their two kids, Maya and Max, have been identified as the family of four found dead in their Houston home in what police believe to be a murder-su***de.

04/30/2026

The first teenage girl, among 150 suspected su***de cases in 2025, has been identified as having been driven to kill herself after domestic violence, connecting violent po*******hy and “toxic” influencers for being behind a rise in teen abuse.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-04-28/first-su***de-linked-to-teenage-relationship-abuse-recorded-in-england-and-wales