Example sentences of "parents ' marriage " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist pointed out the parallels between the two situations : how he had reacted badly to the break-up of his parents ' marriage , and now similarly to the end of his relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 2 | Graham ( aged 12 ) seemed to be sniffing to relieve the tension he felt because his parents ' marriage was breaking up . |
| 3 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 4 | First of all , like most of us , she held beliefs based upon her parents ' marriage . |
| 5 | Even previously unmarried women can hold this view if they experienced the break-up of their parents ' marriage . |
| 6 | The young prince will feel emotionally bruised that his parents ' marriage is over . |
| 7 | In Jenny 's situation , the dread of violence and the potential disintegration of her parents ' marriage has made her flee from any potential aggression . |
| 8 | Her foundry worker father adored his family , and her parents ' marriage was a happy one . |
| 9 | It has been argued by some that children suffer when their parents ' marriage ends , and by others that a child removed from embittered parental conflict will be happier . |
| 10 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 11 | This placement followed the breakup of his parents ' marriage which was acknowledged by his mother , but not his father , as having a serious effect upon Tom 's behaviour . |
| 12 | Just as some children in public care had experienced the break-up of their parents ' marriage , or other family changes , so also had many children not admitted into care . |
| 13 | Jed had watched his parents ' marriage break up and had never said a word ; he was hardly likely to start making his feelings known now . |
| 14 | The Wilsons ' daughter , Helen , testified to a similar if more patriarchal version of the same model in her own parents ' marriage . |
| 15 | Soon after her birth and the subsequent celebrated break-up of her parents ' marriage , she became famous through the lines of Byron 's poem ‘ Childe Harold ’ ( canto 3 , lines 1–5 ) : |
| 16 | Claudia smiled wryly ; her parents ' marriage had been peaceful , mainly because both parents went their own way , each , figuratively , taking one child with them . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , my parents ' marriage slowly hit stormy weather and they split up . |
| 18 | She 'd always believed in the strength of her parents ' marriage , the power of its mutual affection . |
| 19 | She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles . |