Clinton says he remembers his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and half-brother, Roger Clinton, Jr., to the point where he intervened multiple times with the threat of violence to protect them.

His relationship with his mother was rocky ; she had high expectations of him and was afraid her children might end up a dead alcoholic like her brother.

Steiger grew up with his alcoholic mother before running away from home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II, where he saw action on destroyers in the Pacific.

The scene ( which evoked in Christopher feelings about his alcoholic mother, Joanne Blundetto Moltisanti, and deceased father, Richard ( Dickie ) Moltisanti ) touched Christopher so deeply that it inspired him to cry ( and to later punch the student who played Jim's father in the scene ) and his emotionally true acting impressed Christopher's teacher and classmates.

Jack's mother took him with her when she left Chet for his alcoholic ways and became involved with a wealthier man.

However, she suffered at the hands of her alcoholic, abusive father, who in 1988 shot her and her mother dead.

After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth, he was sent to live with his father in Indiana and then Paris.

McCorvey's father left the family when she was 13 years old ; her parents subsequently divorced and she and her older brother were raised by their mother Mildred, a violent alcoholic.

Robinson was born in Cicero, Illinois, the third of five children of an alcoholic father and a disciplinarian mother.

His mother, Julia Ann ( née Crawford ), was allegedly a rebellious alcoholic prostitute.

She has an overbearing mother named Lily ( Pat Carroll ) who had moved to California, and an alcoholic sailor brother Bobby ( Ed Begley, Jr .).

Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story ( 1951 ) and in Lullaby of Broadway, as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day's ingenue character.

I'll Cry Tomorrow ( 1955 ) is a biopic which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fiancé by becoming an alcoholic.

His mother died when he was young and has since been raised by his father, an alcoholic carpenter.

After his mother died when he was ten, he was raised by his alcoholic father in Denver, Colorado.

The main characters are three sisters who come of age in a house run by their abusive and womanizing father and must constantly find ways to take care of their depressed and alcoholic mother.

In Philadelphia in 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to find his mother Martha a wretched alcoholic, the victim of years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel, the owner of a prestigious iron and steel company.

Wickwire was raised in a small town called Ephrata in Washington State, by a mother who was an alcoholic and an emotionally restrictive father.

Claude: A teen who is largely at the mercy of his violent, alcoholic father, Claude tries to take care of his pregnant mother.

Crawford's Mildred Pierce co-star, actress Eve Arden, sided with Christina about Crawford's parenting abilities, saying that Crawford suffered from bipolar disorder ; a good woman in many ways but, as an alcoholic with a violent temper, simply unfit to be a mother.

The eldest child of an impoverished Swedish family abandoned by an alcoholic father, Johnson left school at 13 to support his mother and siblings.

His father was abusive and an alcoholic, and Fred often had to take refuge with his grandparents whenever Jacob would beat his mother.

Her father was a school teacher and her mother Anne Josephine ( née Wilson ), who was an alcoholic, was an agricultural businesswoman from Ireland, where she was the manager of a market stall.

In 1973, the marriage disintegrated after Robinson, like her mother, became an alcoholic.

Her French mother Florence – whom McCall has described as something of a " wild child " and later, specifically as " an alcoholic " – returned to Paris, and McCall saw her only when on holidays.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

Alphonse's coat of arms was formed of those of France ( left ) and Castile ( right ), representing his father and mother respectively: Per pale azure semé-de-lis or dimidiating gules semé of castles or

In 1972, her mother purchased a farm in New Zealand and moved the family there, but left Love in the United States under the care of her former stepfather and various friends due to her increasingly hostile behavior.

A calf left with such a mother all the time can easily drink all the milk, leaving none for human consumption.

Claudius was then left to be raised by his mother, who never remarried.

Following Castel ’ s death, she was left to support her mother, a niece, and her two children.

When he was about nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him with his prosperous architect uncles.

His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Junshi ( also called the Gojō empress 五条后 ), daughter of the minister of the left, Fujiwara Fuyutsugu.

As the only male left in the family, Wright assumed financial responsibility for his mother and two sisters.

From left to right: Groucho, Gummo, Minnie ( mother ), Zeppo, Frenchie ( father ), Chico, and Harpo.

" In the chaos, Scarlett, left to fend for herself, cries for the comfort and safety of her mother and Tara.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett's mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

The quarters of a personal coat of arms correspond to the ancestors from whom the bearer has inherited arms, normally in the same sequence as if the pedigree were laid out with the father's father's ... father ( to as many generations as necessary ) on the extreme left and the mother's mother's ... mother on the extreme right.

These Australians of Irish background did not tend to regard Ireland as their " mother country "-primarily because few had a wish to return to a home they had left in search of a better life.

When Brown was two years old, his parents separated after his mother left his father for another man.

His father was away on business and his mother had moved out, taking his brother with her ; Dahmer was left behind, alone.

Stuart was educated at home by his mother and tutors until the age of twelve, when he left Laurel Hill to be educated by various teachers in Wytheville, Virginia, and at the home of his aunt Anne ( Archibald's sister ) and her husband Judge James Ewell Brown ( Stuart's namesake ) at Danville.

His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means ; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family.

As Germany ’ s military collapsed in the spring of 1945 Riefenstahl left Berlin and was hitchhiking with a group of men, trying to reach her mother, when she was taken into custody by American troops.

Gandhi was called to the bar in June 1891 and then left London for India, where he learned that his mother had died while he was in London and that his family had kept the news from him.

In 1653, his father, mother, and grandmother being dead, Malpighi left his family villa and returned to the University of Bologna to study Anatomy.

The nearly 20 years of family feuding left her very much estranged from both her mother and father.

He left letters to Wilson's mother, Bowers ' mother, a string of notables including his former commander Sir George Egerton, his own mother and his wife.