Nianias, Helen. “As Rental Prices Rise, Women Stay in Bad Relationships to Survive.” Broadly, VICE, 20 Feb. 2016, Web.
Helene Nianias, a foreign freelance correspondent advocates for domestic abuse in

women, mainly because of fiscal crisis in her published article available on Broadly. Nianias, based in the UK gives further insight on how economic control later becomes detrimental to the lives of women in many relationships. Furthermore, she breaks down the adverse effects of men with financial governing power in a relationship, how men become more controlling and possessive when women in this case are much weaker and unable to financially support themselves having nowhere else to turn. Nianias includes that the NDUH describes it as, “Economic and Financial abuse,” later clarifies through two testimonies given by sufferers of financial abuse. Nianias furthers her argument by including that “Of 2,040 people polled, 28 percent of surveyed participants currently in a relationship admitted that financial security was a key factor keeping them with their current partner.” Following such a profound point, the author gives two prime examples of two women, Melinda, and Kaitlyn (whose names have been changed for security purposes) who have fallen victim in their respective relationships to financial abuse by their significant other. “I was squatting and sleeping on people’s sofas for about a month, which was fine at first, but it started to get cold last winter,” says Melinda. This later proved by Nianias to be the pivotal factor as to how she had fallen victim of economic abuse by a man she had met through a mutual friend, who offered her a place to stay. Kaitlyn, victim subsequently described by Nianias, was victim to a toxic relationship hinged on financial instability. “We’d end up in a massive argument or an all-out violent outburst. I was too weak to do anything,” Nianias includes that Kaitlyn exclaims, tying back to her main argument of how the men with financial power in a relationship seemed to have much control in a relationship to the point that women can’t do anything about it. Closing her analysis, Nianias affirms that there is something that you can do about abuse and that if victim to form of domestic violence or abuse, to contact help immediately and further discloses help hotline information. Nianias’ inquisition aides my research topic, that men with control in a relationship seem to lead to unprecedented levels of abuse, and as Nianias proves to be problematic, financial control seems to fall into the parameters of serious abuse that must be further unveiled.