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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Vicky Shaw

Fifth of young men ‘do not consider controlling someone’s spending to be abuse’

Economic abuse can be part of a pattern of domestic abuse (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

Nearly one in five young adult men fail to recognise controlling someone’s spending as economic abuse, according to research published by the Home Office and charity Surviving Economic Abuse.

Nearly a fifth (19%) of 18 to 24-year-old men surveyed believed that controlling how someone spends their money is probably not or definitely not abuse, compared with 6% of 45 to 54-year-old men.

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