Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control
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Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202624 min
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Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, how banking records can provide more insights into financial abuse. And an explanation to a curious change in the length of days. I'm Nick Petrichal.

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And I'm Benjamin Thompson. Quick warning here, our next story is going to be focusing on a form of domestic abuse, specifically one known as financial abuse. Financial abuse involves a person controlling

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someone else's money or finances, perhaps by rationing their access to cash or preventing them having access to their bank account. Other examples might include an abuser taking out debt

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