This week, commencing 18th September 2023, is Post-Separation Abuse Awareness Week, implemented by the abuse charity Kaleidoscopic UK. By implementing the awareness week, Kaleidoscopic are aiming to draw attention to the prevalence and reality of post-separation abuse.
As of April 2023, post-separation abuse is now counted under the Serious Crimes Act (2015) which made coercive and controlling behaviour an offence.
Post-separation abuse is patterns of abuse that continues after a relationship has ended. Abuse can include but is not limited to financial, emotional and physical abuse (including stalking, harassment, etc).
To raise awareness and to support victims and survivors of post-separation abuse, we are sharing some resources from Stowe Talks, as well as some external support.
Dealing with post-separation abuse
In this podcast, Caron Kipping discusses post-separation abuse with our two Stowe lawyer hosts, Matt Taylor and Liza Gatrell.
She explains what post-separation abuse is, its impact and how to move forward.
Caron also discusses financial abuse and parenting alongside an abusive ex-partner.
Coercive control – Watch on YouTube – Webinar with Dr Emma Katz, one of the world’s leading academic experts on coercive control, covering post-separation coercive control.
Moving on from an abusive ex-partner
In this Bristol Break-up Club, Stowe lawyer Joanna Newton, Divorce Coach Claire Black and Caron Kipping discuss moving on from an abusive ex-partner and the emotional impact of post-separation abuse.
Parenting alongside a toxic ex
Stowe Talks episode with Sara Davison, one of the UK’s leading divorce coaches and NLP Master Practitioner. Sara talks through how to parent with an abusive ex-partner.
Male victims of abuse
Tom Nash, Divorce & Business Coach, explores the challenges of male domestic abuse and what support is available for victims.
If you are in immediate danger, contact the police immediately on 999.
Emma Katz appears to believe women are not capable of coercive control. She also denies Parental Alienation exists.
This is despite it being simple enough to find PA victims, always children, usually fathers, occasionally mothers, all over youtube. Millions of accounts of wrecked lives.
Dr Katz and her fellow misandrists are gaslighting the vast majority of these victims, which is bad enough in itself.
Far worse is that they encourage the family courts to do the same in denying PA. Also Cafcass, who really need no further encouragement to remove fathers from children’s lives, their record in doing so is a national disgrace.
Gaslighting is a feature of coercive control. Perhaps that should be considered before giving a platform to such “expert”.