Some are open, as in polygamy; many are clandestine, as with old lovers, bosses or even, perhaps, an abusive uncle who cannot be shaken off.
Soon after, media reports alleged an abusive, perhaps dangerous, environment within the program.
He was nowhere to be heard except to propose that the police officer, who applied the chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Gaarner, was, said Lynch, a "model police officer," for all intent and purposes "a boy-scout"; and that the police officer deserved honor and respect notwithstanding his less-than-honorable (abusive, perhaps criminal) conduct.
We also need community bystander interventions that empower people in the non-abusive but perhaps silent majority to step in and challenge abusive behavior when safe to do so".
Children from more volatile or abusive environments, perhaps lacking that caring adult influence, might become more highly attuned to avoidance and lose interest in healthy exploration.
Perhaps their behavior is only abusive and gratuitous when resources are abundant and warfare unnecessary.
Craig Zobel's "Compliance," based on an actual incident, is at once an intensely disturbing report on the state of the American workplace and a queasy, exploitative allegory of abusive authority (including, perhaps, the power of a director to manipulate unsuspecting performers and spectators).
"If Jane Doe were my sister or mother," she once wrote, "I would hope that someone would care enough to research her remains for me". She still wonders, "Who is she?" Perhaps she was escaping an abusive husband or boyfriend.
It turns out that, difficult as it is to end abusive rule, it is perhaps still harder to build a rights-respecting democracy on a legacy of repression.
She will clearly have much less ability to refuse jobs that she perceives (perhaps correctly) to involve exploitative or abusive treatment than if she received her welfare benefits unconditionally.
