One in five young men ‘don’t recognise the signs of dangerous form of abuse’

A person controlling how their partner spends their own money is a key sign of economic abuse (Picture: Getty Images)

Almost a fifth of young men in the UK do not see controlling a partner’s personal bank account as a form of abuse, a new poll has found.

The alarming survey, carried out for Surviving Economic Abuse and the TSB bank, asked men of different ages about six different signs of economic abuse.

It found 19% of 18 to 24-year-old men would not think the partner of a friend was being abusive if they controlled how the friend spent their own money – or if the partner controlled access to the friend’s bank account.

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