Sentences with phrase «neglectful father»

Hoffman's charming debut novel about a 12 - year - old southern girl with a neglectful father and mentally ill mother won rave reviews and became a bestseller.

The unstable, gentle and socially awkward loner named Lars (Ryan Gosling) and his stable married older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a neglectful father who died recently and a caring mother who died giving birth to Lars.

Kevin Spacey stars as a neglectful father and husband who is magically transported into a cat's body, embarking on a furry journey he must take...

i served two tours in iraq, inwhich multiple times i came close to either being blown up or shot, not once did i cry out to your neglectful father figure in the sky.

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i am atheist, i served as an atheist and i will die an atheist because until your neglectful sky fairy father figure decides to show up he is nothing more than a quaint little bed time story for all the childish minded people like you.

Unfortunately, given the journey up to this point in the film, this ends up sending a jumbled message that almost praises a neglectful and abusive father.

Yet, we evangelicals who affirm the Nicene and Chalcedon creeds and boast that we remain faithful to their intent are profoundly neglectful of the liturgical forms and theological perception of worship shaped by some of the same Church Fathers.

Conflict with fathers, fathers» negativity and fathers» harsh or neglectful parenting are strongly associated with children's externalising behaviour, and fathers» harsh parenting has a stronger effect than mothers» on children's aggression.

It would save the taxpayer money in the long run, since absent and neglectful dads also exact a cost, as many of the young fathers interviewed testified about their own childhoods.

Albert Einstein has long been revered as a scientist, but in recent years he's been judged harshly as a neglectful husband and father.

Released from prison after a 20 - year stint, Ray's neglectful and abusive father Mickey shows up in LA to get what he feels is his rightful due.

The neglectful, borderline - abusive father and impudent son squabble and then bond, particularly after they find a relatively small, primitive robot in a junkyard, which Max insists on getting into fighting shape.

She lost her father (Eric Keenleyside), endured her neglectful mother (Kyra Sedgwick) and lived in the shadow of her older sibling (Blake Jenner).

From the brutal attack that leaves Theo motherless and sends him first to the austere comfort of the Barbours, and then to the neglectful care of his father, and later, most importantly, into the debauched and delinquent arms of Boris (Oh, Boris, I would read a phonebook if it were about you), to the flight from Vegas that had my heart palpitating (hide the dog!)

And Maud, whose stepmother and father were abusive and / or neglectful, finds a way to get to Paris and become an artist.

Breeze is a year old and was rescued as a foal along with her mother and father from an extremely neglectful situation where she was confined in an small area that wasn't cleaned.

You may call witnesses to testify to deficits in the father's parenting, submit written documentation indicating the father has not had contact with the child or that he is abusive or neglectful.

As a daughter of an Aboriginal man and the wife of an Aboriginal man, I know that Bill Leak's claim that Aboriginal fathers are neglectful is not representative of Aboriginal family life.

Through various mental processes, maltreated children persist in fearing, loving, hating, being dependent on, and longing for the love and acceptance of their abusive and neglectful mothers and fathers.»

In contrast to the existing literature, a higher percentage of Singaporean mothers and fathers in our study displayed affectionless control as well as neglectful parenting styles, but a lower percentage displayed affectionate control parenting styles when compared to other non-clinical samples from Europe [40].