This result raises concerns, because child abuse has been linked to maternal depression.21 The increased use of corporal punishment may not be surprising, because depressed mothers have been shown to display many of the characteristics of
abusive mothers, often showing hostility and negativity toward their children.22 — 24
Abusive mothers show aversive, intrusive and controlling behavior toward their child, in contrast to neglecting mothers who may display inconsistent care.
Like
abusive mothers, abusive men also tend to have experienced violence from their own parents.
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.
A behavioral approach to the classification of different types of physically
abusive mothers
She identified a group of children who became compulsively compliant in response to controlling,
abusive mothers.
Abusive maternal care in rodents and the surprising attachment shown by infant rats to
their abusive mothers seems to involve an immature amygdala (25), activation of which by glucocorticoids causes an aversive conditioning response to emerge.
Findings are discussed in terms of implications for interventions to reduce parenting stress experienced by nonabusive and
abusive mothers.
If similar mechanisms operate in the brains of human infants, it may help explain why they remain strongly attached even to
abusive mothers.
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.
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.
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.»
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 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.
Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) comes from a hard - scrabble background under
abusive mother LaVona (Allison Janney).
She's a possibly schizophrenic mental patient raised in near - captivity by
an abusive mother.
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.
-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.
Ariel Winter insists she «wouldn't trade» her tough childhood.The 19 - year - old actress - who was emancipated from
her abusive mother, Crystal...
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
It's also about Harding's impoverished, redneck upbringing, which sees her battling
an abusive mother and then an abusive husband, the film suggesting that she never had a chance with the US skating establishment.
Jane Levy, who already earned her Final Girl Merit Badge as Mia in Alvarez's Evil Dead, stars as Rocky, a young woman determined to escape
her abusive mother and save her younger sister (Emma Bercovici) from a dead - end existence in Detroit.
The film manages sympathy for Harding, pushed into skating by
her abusive mother and pushed around by her abusive husband.
De Palma's take sees the meek, sweet Carrie (Sissy Spacek) fall victim to merciless bullies and
an abusive mother (Piper Laurie); there's no question where your sympathies lie when her violent powers prove fatal to her peers.
Blind for significantly longer — 20 years, brought on by
an abusive mother — the feisty heroine of Michael Apted's under - appreciated Blink (1993), Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe), may be more connected to the outside world than Susy and Sarah but her loneliness and alienation from living in perpetual darkness make her existence feel just as contained.
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.
Janney won for her portrayal of LaVona Golden, Harding's cruel,
abusive mother, who pushes her daughter (played by Margot Robbie) into professional figure skating through a series of questionable tactics.
There's Bonnie Plunkett, the cynical recovering addict trying to forge a new path with her daughter Christy on CBS» Mom; LaVona Golden, a hardened,
abusive mother to future Olympian and scandal - maker Tonya Harding in the upcoming biopic I, Tonya; and Ouisa Kittredge, an aging New York socialite who's lost touch with the passion that's given her life, in the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation.
Her abusive mother is on welfare and she clearly shows Precious no respect.
But it's Mo'Nique's performance as
an abusive mother in «Precious» which has critics buzzing and is Marla Seidell's pick to win.
Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, who play skater Tonya Harding and
her abusive mother in «I, Tonya,» also are up for Globes and SAG awards, as are Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, who play a headstrong Sacramento teenager and her matter - of - fact mother in «Lady Bird.»
She is the quintessential definition of
an abusive mother.
In 2009's «Precious,» Gabourey Sidibe (left) has the title role and Mo'Nique plays
her abusive mother.
In Gim me Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens and Rosario Dawson give masterful performances as a pregnant runaway teenager and
her abusive mother, but an overly saccharine environment weighs the rest of the film down.
Rocky (Jane Levy) is desperate for an escape from
her abusive mother's house for herself and her sister.
McDonagh writes Dixon as a hick and a loser who still lives with his verbally
abusive mother and almost failed out of school.
Allison Janney is incendiary as Harding's
abusive mother, constantly pushing her and demeaning her, often hitting her, too.
Allison Janney is the explosive breakout of I, Tonya, playing Harding's
abusive mother, while Hauser, as the skater's dim - bulb «bodyguard,» Shawn Eckhardt, is its stealth bomb.
One of those new nominees was Allison Janney, who won her first Oscar for her supporting role in I, Tonya, playing Tonya Harding's hard - bitten,
abusive mother LaVona.