Sentences with phrase «abandoned by his mother»

In March, a woman known as the «Burger King baby» who had been abandoned by her mother 27 years previously found her birth mother by posting a plea to Facebook.

My youngest son was abandoned by his mother at birth and placed in an orphanage because of his diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.

The father of attachment theory is John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst who in the mid — 20th century studied orphans and children abandoned by their mothers.»

Or it may have been abandoned by its mother, says Dicken, and so was more vulnerable.

Even relatives separated at birth shared expressions: The blind young man mentioned above was abandoned by his mother two days after birth and not reunited with her until he was 18 years old, yet they shared at least three facial expressions, which reinforces what Darwin suspected more than 100 years ago.

Holly Anders was abandoned by her mother at birth.

At the end, it's more like A.I. than it is like anything else — the story of a mechanical boy abandoned by his mother, in search of a family and authentic emotion and left to founder in the clashing sensibilities of two auteurs: early -»80s fairytale teller John Carpenter and early -» 00s diarist of the family reserve Zombie.

The best actor award was carried off by Murray Melvin, for his performance as Geoffrey, the gay student who befriends and moves in with Jo when she is abandoned by her mother.

Moses was found, traditional has it, as a baby in the bushes, abandoned by his mother when the then - Pharaoh ordered the murder of male newborns among his slaves.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Any Day Now (Unrated) Courtroom drama, set in the Seventies, about the custody battle waged between the state and a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) abandoned by his mother.

Abandoned by his mother as an infant, Charley's only other family is Aunt Margy (Alison Elliott, «20th Century Women») with whom he lost contact many years ago after she had a conflict with Ray over Charlie's upbringing.

Jones, who was abandoned by her mother when she was just a toddler, describes her father, at best, as someone who has dropped in and out of her life.

We meet Beryl as a child abandoned by her mother and allowed to run free as her father raises Thoroughbreds.

Central to the novel are the stories of Even Grade, a 28 - year - old black man abandoned by his mother at birth; Valuable Korner, a 15 - year - old white girl whose family history holds a trunkful of damning secrets; and Joody Two Sun, an enigmatic obeah woman who sees into the hearts and minds of the townsfolk from her riverside camp on the outskirts of town.

Sam is a loner, abandoned by his mother, and disengaged from school and life until a caring teacher connects him with fellow student Luis in a competitive poetry slam.

Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally.

At what point does she understand why she was abandoned by her mother?

If you find kittens abandoned by their mother, watch them for some time from a distance to have an idea if their mother returns.

It is not unusual to discover a nest of unattended kittens or a single kitten seemingly abandoned by the mother.

Nora's sister feeds feral cats, and Georgie was abandoned by his mother.

Kittens are born with a natural hunting instinct; even kittens abandoned by their mother will instinctively develop hunting skills.

A patrol woman at the Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary - the only natural habitat for Asiatic Lions - nurses a four - month old lion cub after he was abandoned by his mother at three days old.

During high kitten season in the spring and summer, it's not unusual to discover a nest of unattended kittens or a single kitten seemingly abandoned by the mother.

READ THIS HELPFUL ARTICLE BEFORE TRYING TO HELP KITTENS YOU FOUND During high kitten season in the spring and summer, it's not unusual to discover a nest of unattended kittens or a single kitten seemingly abandoned by the mother.

I seem to remember early stories mention he was abandoned by his mother but I can't find anything to support that now.

The court heard that, although he had been abandoned by his mother as a young child and been on his own since the age of 15, he had still managed to win an athletic scholarship, maintain employment, and he was receiving counselling.

Juan's history with family and institutions included being abandoned by his mother shortly after his fifth birthday, expelled from the Dade County schools at age II, injured in a gang fight that left him physically disabled by the time he was 12, and rejected by most social service agencies due to his repeat offender status.

Not exact matches

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Ibrahim says she was raised Christian by her mother after her Muslim father abandoned them when she was 6 years old.

Thank you Jeremy for allowing my message concerning adoption to be posted above, the voice of adoptees critical of adoption practices is rarely allowed to be heard outside the adoptee community, especially by abandoning mothers and adopting parents.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

This is so because the great majority of Afro - American mothers have been seduced, deceived, betrayed, and abandoned by the men to whom they gave their love and trust.»

On a 2007 «Colbert Report» appearance, Father Martin was asked whether Mother Teresa's feelings of being abandoned by God had earned her a one - way ticket to «the Lake of Fire.»

Regardless of the polls showing higher favor for changing the definition of marriage — by dillutiing the definition of marriage you make IT WEAKER AND make mothers and children more vulnerable to being abandoned — QUIT the attack on heathy two parent households.

Edith suffered because her loving mother could not understand why her daughter was abandoning her Jewish heritage, even as Edith believed she was deepening it by entering the Church.

Mother Superior has been abandoning babies by the wayside, and lying to the nuns that she found adoptive families.

The mother of two was jailed and sentenced to death in May for abandoning her Muslim faith, although she had never been a Muslim and was raised Christian by her mother when her father left the family.

Many youngsters can testify that when they were abandoned by teenage mothers, their grandmothers gave them a stable home life.

Both kids (and despite the legal distinction that they are of majority age, they are still kids at that age, especially considering that both have been traumatized by the loss of their sister a few years ago) felt abandoned, and have had barely any contact with their mother in the five months that she's been gone (their mother has initiated no contact with our children, one of whom still lives with me and commutes to college, while the other is a college freshman, but who comes here during vacations).

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

In fact, anthropologists now know that for our ancestors, the greatest danger faced by infants was being abandoned to die by a mother who didn't have the resources to care for another child.

An infant or child abandoned by the birth mother; neglected in the orphanage; sometimes abused or injured; then put in the arms of complete strangers from a different culture is going to be traumatized.

Formula has money behind it and breastfeeding has only mothers, volunteers like me, who adored breastfeeding their babies so much, and learned all about motherhood by breastfeeding, that they don't want women to abandon it because of erroneous information, unhelpful advice, or lack of support.

Prenatal care varies greatly by country; if child is relinquished rather than abandoned, birth mothers are usually asked about prenatal care and habits, but the information is not usually extensive.

One of the most common criticisms of Attachment Parenting is that it undermines women's place in society by demanding too much of mothers, forcing them to abandon any interests and identity outside of motherhood.

Such factors include heavy smoking, alcohol consumption and chronic stress, for example when the mother feels neglected and abandoned by her partner and family.

Such factors include heavy smoking, alcohol consumption and chronic stress, for example when the mother feels neglected and abandoned by her partner and family.

They are awakened by church organist Susan Crowell (Dorinda Clifton) and her mother (Mary Newton), who explain that both church and town were abandoned after a series of mysterious killings.

Shanika (Tamara LaSeon Bass) was abandoned by her drug - addicted mother and has bounced from one foster home to another ever since.