Physical and mental health effects of physical abuse may include bone and skin injuries, depression, trauma, social isolation, and difficulty trusting others. “Abuse” is a broad term that describes a ...

Abuse within families is behaviorally nuanced and emotionally complex. Always, it is within a dynamic of power and control that emotional and physical abuse is perpetuated. Abuse may manifest as ...

The justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts found the term "physical abuse," as used in the abuse and molestation exclusion in the homeowners' policy, was ambiguous, and that a single ...