{"id":27825,"date":"2019-01-03T00:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27825"},"modified":"2019-01-03T00:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:22:59","slug":"ireland-criminalizes-emotional-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27825","title":{"rendered":"Ireland criminalizes emotional abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships is now a crime in Ireland. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Domestic Violence Act 2018 went into effect on Tuesday and provides new protections for victims of &#8220;coercive control,&#8221; a type of emotional and psychological abuse aimed at stripping a person of their self-worth and agency.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Although psychological and emotional abuse &#8212; including controlling behavior, isolation, and threats of violence &#8212; can be more difficult\u00a0to\u00a0recognize than physical violence, it can be just as damaging, experts say.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships is now a crime in Ireland. The Domestic Violence Act 2018 went into effect on Tuesday and provides new protections for victims of &#8220;coercive control,&#8221; a type of emotional and psychological abuse aimed at stripping a person of their self-worth and agency.Although psychological and emotional abuse &#8212; including&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}