Sentences with phrase «from abusive mothers»

Ariel Winter insists she «wouldn't trade» her tough childhood.The 19 - year - old actress - who was emancipated from her abusive mother, Crystal...

Rocky (Jane Levy) is desperate for an escape from her abusive mother's house for herself and her sister.

Book 1 of 3, of The Whatever Series *** A construction worker must choose between protecting his young son from an abusive mother, or a life full of music with the girl of his dreams.

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and I praise god for all the abuse and suffering that I went through because that made my faith in him only stronger because in all my suffering, let see: loosing my mother when I was 2, sexual abuse from my father, beatings from my stepmother and father, homelessness, hunger, one bad marriage of 10 years with am alcoholic and abusive husband, cancer, removal of thyroid due to cancer, now I have auto ammume disease, financial loses.

The mother across the street from me who stays in a physically abusive marriage — and whose 6 year old daughter sees and hears the fights.

You can correctly infer from her comment that breastfeeding felt sexual, but there is nothing in what she said that implies that she thinks her breastfeeding was abusive or that any other mother who breastfeeds is «deliberately abusing a child».

He is estranged from his mother, not because of the divorce but because she was emotionally abusive to him and to me.

I know that her definition stems from being raised by a horribly abusive mother; and that is very sad.

Yet for the majority of the world's cultures, separation of an infant from its mother for sleep is considered abusive or neglectful treatment for which Westerners are criticised [9][10].

Her mother, LaVona Golden, is abusive, emotionally and physically, and excuses her abuse as a kind of encouragement of her daughter, who showed talent on the ice from a very young age; Allison Janney's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Girl on the Train) outrageous performance is funny only in the audacity of Golden's horribleness.

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).

He feels responsible for the fate of single mother / forced prostitute Fantine (Anne Hathaway), and rescues her daughter, Cosette, from a pair of abusive, flamboyant innkeepers (Helena Bonham - Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen).

We hear that soldiers killed a teen boy's mother, but that the death was fake and a ruse used to escape captivity endured from an extremely abusive husband (no details are given).

After Lori appears one evening, battered and bleeding from an encounter with her abusive ex-husband, Jerry takes in the mother and daughter, no strings attached.

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.

With each episode devoted to one of the five novels, the series will encompass the saga of Patrick Melrose's life, from his horribly abusive youth at the hands of his father (Weaving) and the mother who tacitly condones the behavior (Leigh), to the outrageous playboy he becomes and the struggles he endures to defy the damage of his own past, the premium cable channel's description continued.

Where other skaters had sponsors, Harding had her (apparently abusive) stage mother who waitressed full - time, pushed Harding from preschool age and sewed her costumes.

With these infamous events as its centerpiece, the film is nothing short of compelling from the very start as we witness Tonya's strained relationship with her terrible mother and abusive husband.

To sum up for the impatient folks, this is a movie about a dead kid's attempt, from beyond the grave, to exact revenge on the abusive stepfather of the girl on whom he has a crush, using his grieving mother as the tool of vigilante justice.

Australian director Craig Gillespie, who made the cricket - cum - baseball drama Million Dollar Arm in 2014, sets out his provocative stall from the start, adopting a faux - documentary style that allows principal characters such as Harding (Margot Robbie), her terrifyingly aggressive mother (Allison Janney) and her good - looking but idiotic and abusive future husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) to address the camera directly while an amusing set of captions tell us that what follows has been inspired by an often «wildly contradictory» set of interviews.

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 tells Tonya Harding's life story from the perspective of its main protagonists, Tonya herself in the present day (Margot Robbie), her abusive ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) and her even more monstrously abusive and confidence sucking, chain - smoking mother, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney).

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.

The failures of the film are not in the performances of the actors, but rather in the script, which presents a conclusion that left me frustrated, given the way it turns a portion of its focus from a grieving and determined mother to the redemption of a racist and abusive police officer.

With humor and wit, Adams keeps you invested in every aspect of Shante's journey, from her early battles with her disapproving mother (Long) to her harrowing fights with an abusive boyfriend Cross, played with tenderness and menace by Moonlight breakout Ali.

The film follows the obese title character (Sam Coleman) through an upbringing supervised by his abusive mother (Lili Taylor) and his eventual escape from a mental hospital with three other inmates, who become his hostages as a deranged sheriff (Stephen Dorff) pursues them to the bloody end.

Avian affections and all, I, Tonya «s most colorful character comes in the form of Harding's abusive, foul - mouthed, booze - guzzling mother, LaVona Golden, whose penchant for fine fur and feathered friends comes to life with wicked conviction from a fearless Allison Janney.

A boy is beaten up defending his mother from her abusive husband.

Joel Edgerton (The Thing) and Tom Hardy (Inception) star as the Conlon brothers, Brendan and Tommy, estranged from childhood due to the fallout from their alcoholic father's (Nick Nolte, Affliction) abusive relationship with their mother.

That's because every step of her assault on showbiz has been dictated by her abusive mother, Macy (Minnie Driver), the proverbial stage - mom from Hell.

After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, she is finally in a place where she'll be safe and protected, with a family who will love and nurture her.

THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVES She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead.

Forever Blessed is the story of a young mother who is on the run from an abusive husband with her three children in tow.

Lucy's parents may also have suffered from PTSD — her father as a result of service in World War II, and her mother from her own abusive family background, suggested in Strout's previous novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, when Lucy's mother can not touch her own daughter and explains that growing up she never slept but only catnapped.

His father is an abusive drunk, and his mother has never gotten over the deaths of six of her children from various illnesses.

A fearful single mother fleeing home to family and a sentient house to protect her daughter from a criminal and abusive ex husband, and seeking advice and training for the powers the little girl has begun to manifest.

One of the defining parts of Sun and Moon was the character Lillie, who the player travels with and sees develop and grow from being a timid, powerless girl into a confident character willing to take on her fears and even stand up to her abusive mother (it's never described as such, but yeah, there's straight up abuse via child neglect and verbal assault in these games).

She found that while the father did suffer from some alcohol problems, the root cause was the relationship with the mother and her abusive, controlling and manipulative behaviour towards the father.

If you want the empirical research on this, it comes from research on the attachment system of primates since we are allowed to create exceptionally bad and abusive monkey mothers to study the attachment bonding of children but it is unethical to create exceptionally bad human mothers to study the attachment system of chlilden.

The demographic data for the mothers included age, marital status, previous living arrangement with the former partner who was abusive, nationality (and the former partner's nationality), educational attainment, employment status, household income, number of years of enduring abuse, the number of years after separating from the abusive partner, and the number of years living without the abusive partner.

To that end, the law allows a mother to request temporary and permanent court orders of protection to protect both the mother and children from abuse, and a judge is required to consider domestic violence as a factor against awarding custody to an abusive husband.

In addition, some mothers who were raised in abusive or neglectful homes suffer from the lack of appropriate parenting role models.

In the majority of abusive relationships, an unsupportive father withdraws from the mother over the course of the pregnancy and is largely disconnected from his new family by the time the child is 3 months old.

Almost all abusive fathers who are not in a relationship with the mother also withdraw themselves from the lives of their children.

Just prior to the mother's filing for divorce (and prompting it), the father, in one of his regular drunken rages, had become verbally abusive and then violent with the mother's 16 - year - old son from her first marriage (who had recently come to live with them).

Father's argued that the court should order a change of custody to the father and stop contact with the mother temporarily — saying that the risk of elimination of the mother was a small price to pay to protect the child from the mother's emotionally abusive alienation.

One single mother told me that while contemplating a divorce from her verbally abusive husband, her friends (at the time) told her she was crazy.

Like abusive mothers, abusive men also tend to have experienced violence from their own parents.

In reality, we know the cause: the use of a male supremacist evaluator who specializes in Munchausen and is paid substantial sums of money for this diagnosis as a way to take children from safe, protective mothers so they can be sent to live with abusive fathers.