Sentences with phrase «addict mother»

Published in 2014, the book follows Jiang - Stein as she discovers the truth about her upbringing — which included being born in a prison to a heroin - addict mother.

Divvied up into three acts — «Little,» «Chiron,» and «Black» — the film depicts three interrelated life experiences that affect Chiron and his drug addict mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), for years to come.

Inevitably, the years of homophobic abuse, from a crack addict mother and bullying classmates, take their toll.

While revisiting David Michôd's «Animal Kingdom» (2010), I wondered what it was like for its passive teenager hero to live with his heroin addict mother at their small home.

Born to a drug addict mother and a father who wasn't present, he gained his nickname from the when his family's three - story home caught on fire due to the neglect of his intoxicated mother.

Oh, and finally, please give me the citation where every baby up for adoption was born of a drug addict mother.

Harris» role as a drug - addicted mother is ugly, sad, and infuriating.

He grew up in poverty, with a drug - addicted mother and drug demons of his own.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

She had made several social media video postings prior, where she shared her thoughts and her private moments within the sad walls of a dilapidated, filthy trailer she lived in with two young half siblings, her pill addicted mother and a man not related.

I was raised in a Mormon home to a religiously addicted mother and a less fervent father.

West Virginia has been one of the hardest - hit states in the opioid epidemic, especially when it comes to neonatal abstinence syndrome — a condition where addicted mothers give birth to drug - exposed babies.

Children born to cocaine - addicted mothers are no more likely than other kids from similar backgrounds to have significant behavioral problems during their first three years.

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

In the film, Reynor plays young taxi driver John, who spends his days fighting to earn a living for himself and his alcohol - addicted mother (played by Toni Collette), a way of life that's threatened at every turn by forces both internal and external.

The plan backfires, and she is forced into custody of her gambling - addicted mother.

Kenzie found Amanda McCready in a loving, stable home and did as the law required, returning her to her neglectful, drug - addicted mother and sending the kidnappers to jail.

Preference: Plumbing the depths of a potential stereotype — the drug - addicted mother — Naomie Harris undergoes her own devastating arc across the three passages of Moonlight, transforming before our eyes as her character's son, Chiron, remains an introverted constant.

Upstairs, she and her two young children share their home with her soap - opera - addicted mother, Mimi (Diane Ladd), while the basement is occupied by her ex-husband and her garage - owning father, Rudy (Robert De Niro) too.

Run the Tide (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes and a sex scene) Dysfunctional family drama about young man (Taylor Lautner) who kidnaps his young half - brother (Nico Christou) and heads for the California coast to save him from their just - paroled, meth - addicted mother (Constance Zimmer) and her good - for - nothing ex-husband (Kenny Johnson).

The rest of Moonlight, however, is burdened with not only setting up the dramatic weight of this particular encounter, but also developing the narrative leading toward another one: Chiron's reunion with his drug - addicted mother, Paula (Naomie Harris).

Streep plays Violet Weston, the family's newly widowed matriarch, and Roberts plays Barbara Weston, Violet's oldest daughter, who lives in fear of becoming her uncensored and pill - addicted mother.

Naomie Harris is getting major awards buzz for her performance as a crack - addicted mother in Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight.»

The road to true love involves lunches with his plastic surgery - addicted mother (Katherine Helmond), bureaucratic dueling with an air condition repairman (Bob Hoskins), and cozy relations with the friendly neighborhood interrogator (Michael Palin).

They, and Heigh, become preoccupied by a subplot involving Little Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz), a put - upon pre-teen whose whoring, meth - addicted mother frequently forces her out of the house.

Michael Starrbury Despite being one of the buzzier titles at Sundance, «The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete,» about two Brooklyn kids (Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon) who leave their drug - addicted mothers to set up for themselves, is yet to land U.S. distribution.

First - time nominee Naomie Harris gives a riveting performance in Moonlight, as Chiron's crack - addicted mother, Paula.

After a half - hearted, if dramatic, suicide attempt, Imogene is released by the hospital to the custody of her estranged, gambling - addicted mother (Annette Bening).

As the counter to Chiron's crack - addicted mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), Juan plays father to a fatherless child.

Naomie Harris has stated her reluctance to take on the role of a crack - addicted mother — was there no resistance, on your part, to the idea of playing a drug dealer?

The other teens are Lee Bridges — a father who struggles to balance schoolwork, dealing with his drug - addicted mother, parenting, and supporting his girlfriend — and Joey McGee, who is failing academically.

After a harrowing boyhood with his drug - addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love.

For instance, were Ginny's mental issues simply a result of autism or were they combined with the results of being born to an addicted mother?

Jojo and his little sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents on a farm on the Gulf Coast, where their drug - addicted mother, Leonie, occasionally shows her face.

Not only is The Last Child told from multiple perspectives, but the voices truly challenged me: a thirteen - year - old boy traumatized after the disappearance of his twin sister yet still innocent enough to believe in magic, the boy's grief - stricken, drug - addicted mother, a three - hundred - pound escaped convict with the mind of an innocent and the voice of God in his head... I had to stretch for these.

What intrigues me about his work isn't just its subject matter — its gritty look at the lives of a drug - dealing son and his drug - addicted mother — but the unique and confident voice of the author.

Those works — along with many others, like the 1969 photographs Minter took of her alcoholic and pill - addicted mother, or I'm Not Much But I'm All I Think About, a 2011 video in which the letters M and E, along with a pair of silver M&M's, are repeatedly dropped into an oozing mixture of vodka and silver food coloring — are currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, in «Marilyn Minter: Pretty / Dirty,» a retrospective that originated at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Early Life and Education Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1948 and raised in Florida by her drug addicted mother.

Handled hypertensive, diabetic, pre-term and drug addicted mother while in labor as well as risk patient.

Not exact matches

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

I do so with a heavy heart, because the mother of the addict may be a willing victim.

Hi my name is Lindsey and I'm recovering heroin addict and my mother is a very devoted rightous Christian her favorite saying is I am the head and not the tail meaning she is the head is far better than me and I am the tail and because the way Christians have treated me recently through my struggle I have felt that I should convert to Hinduism when I brought this up to my mother she told me I will go to hell because Jesus is the only God which I do believe to an extent but I also believe in having peace within your own life and treating others equally fairly with love respect and dignity which my mother and my sister do not do the act as though they are better than anyone they do not sin they do not make mistakes and they are perfect in every way another one of her favorite sayings I'm not perfect but I'm going to try to be BC Jesus loves me that much.

Thus, rehab only serves as a message that the fellow adult brother will no longer tolerate the parental abuse by the addicted brother... however, the mother believes there is no abuse... the drugs somehow disappeared... it can not be her (addicted) son that has been trying to sell her belongings on ebay...

So, here I was... so sad that I could only encourage one man... and God has encourged two non-addicted brothers, placed good boundaries on the addicted brother, and helped ensure the safety of the mother.

Jonathan, you are right, I am beating myself up... I hoped to save all the soldier — the whole family — but ended up encouraging the one living core — the one brother — to do the right thing, knowing that the addict and mother are beyond my reach.

When we follow Jesus, He leads us to addicts and criminals, to the homeless and prostitutes, to abandoned children and single mothers.

Both become drug addicts — Boris for the thrill, Theo to mask the stress he still suffers from his mother's death.

In the upside down Rawlsian universe, a single mother who managed to improve her lot and that of her children through hard work, thrift, and discipline would find her somewhat greater resources subject to redistribution to another single mother who, say, was addicted to drugs, neglected her children, and refused to work.

In one case the father was an alcoholic and the mother a drug addict.

There are those killed in fights over turf, innocents caught in cross fire, citizens terrified of city streets, escalating robberies, children fed free crack to get them addicted and then enlisted as runners and dealers, mothers so crazed for a fix that they abandon their babies, prostitute themselves and their daughters, and addict their unborn.