{"podcast":{"title":"The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast","slug":"the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264","podcast_index_feed_id":546264,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/115215/rss","website_url":"https://www.kateanthony.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/3/9/e/339e6969c86dd1fbd959afa2a1bf1c87/Final.png","author":"Kate Anthony","episode_count":381,"summary":"On the Divorce Survival Guide Podcast we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go? Hosted by Kate Anthony, your Divorce Survival Guide.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T14:20:12.368402+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 365: Children as Co-Victims of Coercive Control with Dr. Emma Katz","slug":"episode-365-children-as-co-victims-of-coercive-control-with-dr-emma-katz","published_at":"2026-04-16T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264/episode-365-children-as-co-victims-of-coercive-control-with-dr-emma-katz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264","url":"https://divorcesurvivalguide.libsyn.com/episode-365-children-as-co-victims-of-coercive-control-with-dr-emma-katz","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/divorcesurvivalguide/DSG-365.mp3?dest-id=653878","summary":"I am so glad to bring Dr. Emma Katz back to the show. She is a senior lecturer in criminology at Edgehill University and one of the world's leading experts on coercive control. She is the author of Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives and writes the Substack Decoding Coercive Control , where she makes this research clear to process and digest for anyone navigating it in real life. Today we are focused on children and their lived experience of coercive control, and what actually supports them when one parent is trying to protect them inside constrained systems. In this conversation we explore what children are actually experiencing as co-victims and co-survivors of coercive control, both inside the home and after separation, when the tactics don't stop, they just shift. We get into what protective mothers can actually do to support their kids, why your own survival is already a road map, and how to talk to your children about what is happening in a way that helps them make sense of it without putting them in more danger. We also go deep on family court and why court-ordered systemic therapy in a coercive control situation is, in Emma's words, a match made in hell. What you'll hear about in this episode: How coercive control intensifies for children after separation, and what they are experiencing when they move between homes (2:34) How to talk to your children about abuse in a way that is ongoing, depersonalized, and actually safe (27:06) Family court and systemic therapy: how to navigate it strategically when you have no choice (35:36) The changes Emma is seeing in family court in the UK, why the US is moving in the opposite direction, and what that means for protective mothers (44:20) Final advice for protective mothers on building the anti-coercive contr…","meta_description":"I am so glad to bring Dr. Emma Katz back to the show. She is a senior lecturer in criminology at Edgehill University and one of the world's leading expert…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3407,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264/episodes/episode-365-children-as-co-victims-of-coercive-control-with-dr-emma-katz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-divorce-survival-guide-podcast-546264/episode-365-children-as-co-victims-of-coercive-control-with-dr-emma-katz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}