1.   He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.

2.   Her father had physically abused her.

3.   My father abused us for years.

4.   Last May, several months after the purchase, the daughter discovered that her father had sexually abused her older sisters while they were children.

5.   But James Donald Beets, the son of her victim, says his father never abused his former stepmother.

6.   He had been a quiet, withdrawn child, and his father physically abused him.

7.   He told authorities his father had sexually abused him.

8.   Her father verbally abused her.

9.   His father abused him, she says, though she went to jail for child endangerment.

10.   Hynes is particularly passionate on the subject because, he explained, his father abused his mother.