Sentence examples for parental abandonment from inspiring English sources
Parental abandonment, date rape and domestic abuse are nodded at earnestly, but it's all very sanitary.
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions.
A fair number of children from stable homes were thrown into institutions for minors with histories of delinquency and parental abandonment.
To relate the details of the narrative — death, cancer, betrayal, parental abandonment, more death — would create an impression of dreariness and woe.
In his story about a Dutch Jewish boy, "I was trying to work out everything about being black in Britain, parental abandonment, responsibility".
In web comedy :DRYVRS, he's a blood-spattered sadist, unhinged by the childhood trauma of parental abandonment, and defending himself against home invaders.
Whatever our age, parental death, abandonment and neglect immediately tug at our sympathies, showing us the fearsome realities of the adult world, rendered starker when seen through a child's eyes.
I believe that stories are the most powerful weapons we have, and that fairy tales act as tiny inoculations against anxiety or terror: we are exposed to the worst scenarios (parental death, abandonment, starvation, imprisonment, etc)., and, through the pluck and intelligence of the protagonist, we are carried into a better life than before.
Grimm purists regard the Disney version as a sentimental confection, but Disney animators preserved the fairy tale's powerful engagement with a child's fears about parental persecution and abandonment, while also capturing adult anxieties about aging and loss.
In a small study published in PLoS ONE in January, researchers found that childhood adversity in the form of maltreatment, parental loss or abandonment altered a control mechanism for a key gene that regulates the brain's ability to handle stress hormones.
There was the surreal and horrific childhood of parental neglect, abuse and abandonment.
