She confirmed that their father, who died in 1971, had violently abused their mother.

Cherrie's father, an Anglo person, was an alcoholic who abused her mother and family.

Patrick says his father abused him and his mother.

He was a drunk and he abused my mother.

My father used to abuse my mother, and I just thought that this was the way things were.

A third of the way into the plot, Mark recalls how he once attacked his father for abusing his mother.

"Was your father 'unpleasant' to the degree that he abused your mother?"

Abusing one's enemy's mother is a habit common to many cultures.

He abused Judith and her mother for some years.

He'd abused my mother for years, but this time he turned his rage on me.