1.   A security firm that had been accused of allowing abusive boyfriends into the shelter was also exonerated.

2.   Elizabeth Snow, who lives in Americus, Ga., needed welfare after moving from Florida to escape an abusive boyfriend.

3.   I recently helped care for a young woman in the hospital who had been troubled for years with abdominal pain and a psychologically abusive boyfriend.

4.   In between those adventures, Jody has to deal with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, while Beth faces an adult world that refuses to believe her.

5.   Jody is a forest sprite, an adventurous loner and the daughter of an alcoholic mother with an abusive boyfriend.

6.   Judd shares a story about a defining moment in her life when she fled from an abusive boyfriend and hid out in a Santa Monica hotel.

7.   Officials also suggested that Ms. DiMedici herself did not give prosecutors full cooperation in building a case against her abusive former boyfriend.

8.   Nor, he says, does he want to push poor women into marriages with abusive boyfriends, as some feminists have asserted.

9.   Often teens are trying to rebel against their families and can become dependent on an abusive boyfriend or girlfriend who represents independence.

10.   Sara was placed with a different relative, whose abusive boyfriend threatened the children and fired gunshots through living room at night.