Referee Michael Oliver (in blue) is abused by Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon during a 2018 Champions League tie. Afterwards, Oliver and his wife were sent abusive emails and texts, including death threats.
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As Euro 2024 kicks off, the governing body of European football is urgently trying to recruit thousands of new grassroots officials. Is football really in danger of running out of referees?
Adolescents should be informed about their rights to respectful care.
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Adolescent girls are more at risk during childbirth. Stigma and abuse by healthcare workers makes them less likely to seek medical care, putting their lives further in danger.
After separation, mothers who experienced domestic violence on average suffered a drop in income of 34%, compared with a 20% decrease for mothers who didn’t experience domestic violence.
Elder abuse can take many forms, including financial, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, along with neglect.
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Family courts’ hostility – both in the US and abroad – toward claims of paternal or spousal abuse has been widely reported. Now there’s an in-depth study that documents that hostility.
In lockdown, many homes around the country are less safe than usual.
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An evaluation of a therapeutic foster care program has shown significant improvements in children previously thought too complex and challenging for foster care.
There are long-held myths about domestic abuse.
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If even top judges can get it wrong when it comes to domestic abuse then perhaps it’s time we all tried to better understand the nature of coercive and controlling behaviour.
Spanking is a common parenting practice in the U.S.
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A ban on corporal punishment has not stopped the practice in Uganda’s schools. An initiative in the East African country may hold the solutions - and could be used in other countries, too.
A diagnostic label such as borderline personality disorder, with its stigma and propensity to invalidate the person’s suffering, clearly has many negative impacts.
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Diagnostic labels usually describe symptoms, attempt to answer the question of what is wrong, and lead to a treatment plan. But “borderline personality disorder” fails on all three counts.