Sentence examples for cruel parent from inspiring English sources

She had been an indifferent, sometimes cruel parent.

DAVID LETTERMAN One of Osama bin Laden's sons has written a book... and he said his father was a cruel parent.

In "The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting" (2005), she put Dostoyevsky, Proust and Joyce under the microscope.

Many are connected to Emily: on the other side of the wall, Emily is a little child in a well-to-do Victorian family, with casually cruel parents.

The show, based on the Roald Dahl children's novel about a young girl persevering against cruel parents and a sadistic headmistress, sold nearly $2 million in tickets the day after opening and now has advance sales totaling nearly $20 million.

While they liked the inventiveness of Dennis Kelly's book and the staging and design work, they found the subject too dark — a young girl battling her cartoonishly cruel parents and headmistress — and a bit chilly.

In Greece, Giorgos Lanthimos contributed Kynodontas (Dogtooth), the weirdly absorbing tale of three children trapped in an alternate universe created by their cruel parents on their isolated country estate.

Cruel parents, rocky marriages, and unexpected children or lack thereof.

Attendants ranged in age from salt-and-pepper bearded OGs to kids who were hauled there by enthusiastic and unintentionally cruel parents.

I have no idea if my dad was actually trying to get me interested in something he enjoyed, or was just playing a cruel parenting joke.

And, while my school-aged kid is fairly content with cold cereal, as his parents were before him, I am not so cruel a parent to deprive him of such wonders as pop tarts – although I do insist upon making them at home, if we're going to have them at all.