41.   His roving father, he said, would leave the family for months at a time, in part because he knew welfare would make sure they ate.

42.   Her father, an alcoholic, abusive man, left the family when her mother was pregnant with their third child.

43.   His Vietnamese father, he said, left the family when he was still a boy.

44.   His father left the family when Lewis was young.

45.   I completely regret leaving my family.

46.   I am leaving my family here in safety and then I will return to Kabul.

47.   In fact, Ms. Weems left her family and struck out on her own while still in her teens.

48.   In his first race for Congress, he attacked his female opponent for leaving a family at home while commuting to Washington.

49.   In this community of crumbling cement houses, where sewage spills into dusty streets and rolling blackouts leave families dining by candlelight, the people have begun to grumble.

50.   Instead, he fails to return from a tennis match and leaves his family for the wife of a friend.