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Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

Rosemary West, too, was the daughter of a dominant and abusive father, a man whose actions she also idealised.

For your willing ear and prospectus of what you might teach us, we will make sure, on your eight-hour shift, that we take all drunks, accidents, gunshots, and abusive hookers away from the House of God and across town to the E.

You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.

The experience of hearing other women relive abusive experiences gave this patient acute anxiety attacks.

A one-on-one relationship with a therapist can mirror the primary abusive relationship.

If your mother was abused by her father, she may well have married a sexually abusive man.

The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.

Social Democrats have for the most part been treated by the authorities with repressive laws and abusive epithets.

What would happen if she finally confessed to him that Bill had been an abusive husband?

With a young child and an abusive boyfriend, she had used up all the reserves of hope that she had stored up for emergencies and hard times.

I had a feeling that I had passed through this abusive cult for a reason.

Nothing had prepared her for parenthood by herself, and even more tragic, nothing had prepared her for the abusive relationship inherent in being married to an alcoholic.

I remembered all along that my father had been abusive, only I did not consistently remember.

From her own experience, she has become aware that there are many women like herself who leave the Family and fall into similarly controlling and abusive situations, which tend to perpetuate the experiences that they had while in the cult.