His childhood of poverty and parental abandonment and his many dalliances and marriages, often with teenage girls, are dealt with circumspectly and with a hint of reluctance.

Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.

Holding at bay memories of parental abandonment and young sexual abuse, the unmarried Jocelyn is upbeat, controlling and generous.

Mere facts from a woman's life, listed alongside photographs, construct a brief but painful biography of parental abandonment and emotional anguish.

Joe talks of "re-experiencing each detail" of his life in analysis, but one learns more of his condition than of its cause, beyond pat references to parental abandonment.

Some people have wondered whether 6- and 7-year-olds really need to know about heroin addiction, gang warfare, prostitution and parental abandonment.

These children may have developed PTSD due to witnessing violence in the home, or as a result of real or perceived parental abandonment.

Take one sure-fire human interest story of parental abandonment and one hit movie, and the words almost wrote themselves: Home Alone.

All his life he nursed a grievance about parental abandonment.

In addition, because of the elements involved in the comic magazine's story, such as poverty, parental abandonment, death and alcoholism, often there are dramatic moments in the magazine as well.