"Domestic abuse costs lives and it costs money. The proposed new laws will for the first time set a legal definition of domestic abuse to include economic abuse - the practice of controlling access to money - as well as psychological coercion and manipulation, the government said. This would put Britain on a footing with countries such as India and South Africa, which have already updated their domestic abuse definitions to cover economic control. Lives lostAbout 2 million people, predominantly women, suffer domestic abuse every year in Britain, the government said. It is not the first time that Britain's Conservative government has broken ground in domestic abuse legislation.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 22, 2019 15:33 UTC