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Survivors of coercive control are being unfairly criminalised in England and punished by a justice system that should be protecting them, research has found.A report from…

Surrogates have a greater chance of being newly diagnosed with a mental illness during and after pregnancy than women who carry their own offspring, researchers have…

Young men are more likely to live at home with their parents than women of the same age, with a third of 20- to 34-year-old men…

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In your report (Government not learning lessons from deaths of domestic abuse victims, report finds, 15 July), the domestic abuse commissioner rightly calls for the government’s strategy…

Almost half of pregnant black women raised concerns to healthcare professionals during labour, with half saying that their concerns were also not properly addressed, according to…

Two women who conceived their eldest children while they were in violent and controlling relationships have lost a legal challenge to the rules around the two-child…

In 12 and a half minutes or less, you must: Run half a mile; scramble up a six-foot wall; lift 16 sandbags, each one roughly the…

Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections.

It was during the 19th Century that clubs in London boomed – approximately a dozen existed at the start of the century, and 400 by the…