Later, when her partner had grown abusive, he, by then the father of her children, restrained her from reporting him by saying: "They'll send me back to prison.
When Fulbert grew increasingly abusive, Abelard moved Heloise to a convent in Argenteuil, where he continued to visit her.
Using their sharpest language to date, the lawyers also questioned the father's fitness as a parent, saying he had grown "verbally abusive" toward Elian in daily telephone conversations.
We now know children growing up in abusive homes are not only more likely to find themselves in abusive relationships, but also to experience significant psychological effects.
"There is a physical effect taking place in children growing up in abusive households, in places where they witness a lot of abuse, perhaps their mum having different, multiple partners.
Both countries share similar pressures: huge numbers of young people without jobs, growing outrage over abusive security forces, corrupt leaders, repressive political systems.
Three times a year, a coalition of Chicago community groups met with the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators to warn about the growing prevalence of abusive mortgage lending.
Martin Wheatley, incoming chief executive of the FCA, said there was clearly growing concern about "abusive practices" in the payday loan sector.
But now, with outrage growing over the abusive behavior of Mike Rice, the university's men's basketball coach, Mr. Pernetti and the university's president, Robert L. Barchi, find themselves under scrutiny for their handling of the case.
And maybe they were the best of times – the edited highlights in which Liu, Keire and Zack could briefly forget the bruising realities of growing up in abusive households in Rockford, Illinois.
