Sentences with phrase «abusive mother»
A test of moderation revealed a significant interaction between parental intolerance and abuse status such that intolerance predicted parenting stress level only for abusive mothers.
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Well my father was very abusive my mother also.
I know that her definition stems from being raised by a horribly abusive mother; and that is very sad.
Like abusive mothers, abusive men also tend to have experienced violence from their own parents.
But as Janney's Oscar - winning turn as the blistering, abusive mother of Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya» proves: The actress dining out on the role of a sociopathic mother has the edge over the one portraying the merely difficult one.
Sackett et al. found that monkeys raised by abusive mother cling to them more than average: The immediate consequence of maternal rejection is the accentuation of proximity seeking on the part of the infant.
Tony ® and Emmy ® award winning actress Ellen Barkin has played roles ranging from abusive mothers to sultry femme fatales.
Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) comes from a hard - scrabble background under abusive mother LaVona (Allison Janney).
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Thanks to one violent mistake during her childhood, Moll hasn't been allowed the normal life her siblings enjoy, and has been reduced to little more than a live - in servant by her psychologically abusive mother (James).
Her philandering father was constantly bringing home mistresses, to which her verbally abusive mother turned a blind eye.
The one for I, Tonya could conceivably read, «Tonya Harding's life underwent a momentous change when she agreed to be interviewed for a sympathetic biopic starring Australian star Margot Robbie that portrayed her as the victim of a psychotically abusive mother and husband rather than an evil little scheming piece of white trash.»
Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz) is an introverted high - school senior whose knowledge of sex (and all relationships in general) has been stunted by her ultra-religious and abusive mother Margaret (Julianne Moore).
Patti (Australian actress Danielle Macdonald) lives with, and takes care of, her hard - drinking, sometimes abusive mother (Bridget Everett) and wheelchair - bound Nana (Cathy Moriarty) in a cramped, squalid apartment.
It's all tied together by a hospital fire, two sisters, and a possibly abusive mother, which ties into Beth's own, underdeveloped past, and of course, Beth eventually travels to the burned down hospital to unravel the mystery before she learns that not everything is as it seems right before a twist that's neither surprising nor predictable but simply perfunctory.
Can he persuade Joni to join his new family before Isaac's abusive mother tears it apart?
He shows that physically abusive mothers tend to yearn for care and are overly sensitive to forms of rejection, having experienced threatened or actual abandonment in their own childhood.
Abusive mothers show aversive, intrusive and controlling behavior toward their child, in contrast to neglecting mothers who may display inconsistent care.
Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Portraying the foul - mouthed, abusive mother of the titular Olympian skater, Janney sticks a landing that could well see her taking home gold herself.
The Emmy - winning actress plays U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding's abusive mother LaVona Golden in the upcoming film I, Tonya, which details the skater's career and 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan that got Harding banned for life from figure skating.
We examined a model of parenting stress for abusive mothers (n = 80) and nonabusive mothers (n = 86) using linear regression analyses.
Seth Dove lives with his emotionally abusive mother and his soft but distant father, who run a gas station in rural Idaho sometime after WWII.
In the movie's openly unreliable universe, Harding is accustomed to Gillooly's violence after growing up with a physically and psychologically abusive mother.
McDonagh writes Dixon as a hick and a loser who still lives with his verbally abusive mother and almost failed out of school.
Harding told him about her roughshod childhood, her domineering and, in Harding's telling, physically abusive mother — in The Price of Gold, a childhood friend describes peering through a crack in a bathroom stall door and seeing Tonya's mother, LaVona Golden, smacking Harding repeatedly with a hairbrush — and her rise as an ice skater.
Ms. Calcaterra, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, was interviewed by CBS news correspondent Susan Spencer about how she overcame a difficult childhood with an abusive mother and years spent living in foster homes.
If similar mechanisms operate in the brains of human infants, it may help explain why they remain strongly attached even to abusive mothers.
The film gives Harding partial control of her own, jaw - dropping story, from her early days in thrall to an abusive mother, to the domino - chain of associations which led to her rival Nancy Kerrigan being clubbed in the knee, when she left her Detroit practice rink in January of that Winter Olympics year.
A working - class girl with an abusive mother and scads of talent, Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) didn't fit the mold of the well - bred, well - behaved young lady favored by figure skating judges.
But, she's also something of a victim of circumstance, growing up under an abusive mother (Allison Janney) and later marrying an wife - beater, although the mockumentary style leaves open the possibility that Hardin could be stretching the truth, with them calling her a liar every - time she flashes back to an abusive episode.
The film is structured around conflicting accounts of the same events told by Harding and her former husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), with occasional interruptions from Harding's pitiless, abusive mother, LaVona, brilliantly played by Allison Janney, who can strike terror (and steal scenes) with little more than a long pause or the wily crook of her half - grin.
During the show Sebastian's I, Tonya co-star Allison Janney took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Tonya's abusive mother.
Beautifully filmed and edited with wonderful performances by three actors who play the lead character at different times in his life, as well as Naomie Harris's staggeringly brave performance as his tormented and abusive mother, Moonlight rightly won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture in that infamously clumsily handled Oscar ceremony.
So does Tonya's abusive mother, LaVona (Allison Janney), her ladylike skating coach, Diane (Julianne Nicholson) and Jeff's best friend, Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), the film's main source of comedy.
-RRB- felt that art should imitate life, as he decided to give the Bride in Black a queer origin story about a gender - confused man who was driven insane by his abusive mother who desperately wanted a daughter.
I suppose screenwriter Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious) felt that art should imitate life, as he decided to give the Bride in Black a queer origin story about a gender - confused man who was driven insane by his abusive mother who desperately wanted a daughter.
Robbie stars opposite Allison Janney and Sebastian Stan as her abusive mother and husband, respectively.
Gim me Shelter (PG - 13 for violence, profanity, drug use and mature themes) Coming - of - age drama about a troubled runaway (Vanessa Hudgens) who escapes her abusive mother (Rosario Dawson) to search for the long - lost father she's never known (Brendan Fraser) only to end up pregnant in a homeless shelter.
Ariel Winter insists she «wouldn't trade» her tough childhood.The 19 - year - old actress - who was emancipated from her abusive mother, Crystal...
The acting is first rate, with Robbie in her best role yet, but it's Janney who steals the show as Tonya's foul - mouthed, abusive mother, LaVona - a single mum and waitress determined for her daughter to succeed - using unrelentingly tough love to make it so.
Janney is funny and horrifying as Tonya Harding's abusive mother, and, were it not for Leo, would certainly deserve the prize.
She convincingly handles the skating work (with the help of a double) and the role of a complex woman who was ridiculed publicly for trying to knock Kerrigan (Caitlin Carter) out of the competition but whose own past clearly played a key role with an abusive mother and husband.
As Tonya Harding's estranged, abusive mother, she's foul - mouthed and indignant, and she makes it impossible to look away.
Acclaimed: The star has bagged a nomination for her role as the abusive mother of figure skater Tonya Harding in the flick I, Tonya
Allison - who is currently in a relationship with Philip Joncas, 37 - plays LaVona Golden in the film - the abusive mother of figure skater Tonya Harding.
So, between the absentee - father who impregnated her, and the relentlessly - abusive mother (Mo'Nique) who insists she'll never amount to anything, it's no surprise that Precious frequently escapes into a parallel universe where she daydreams about being rescued from her nightmarish existence by «a light - skinned boyfriend with good hair.»