Parental Relationship Breakdown, Divorce, Page 3

Mourning, Alonzo

Mourning's parents divorced when he was 11 and soon after that he put himself into care. He had a number of foster homes but eventually found a permanent family, where he stayed until he we... [more]

Murphy, Edward Regan

Murphy's parents divorced when he was three and his father was murdered not long afterwards. He and his brother were then placed in foster care until their mother remarried, when he was nin... [more]

Myers, Billie

Myers spent eight years in foster care after her Jamaican father and English mother separated. Her first single, "Kiss the Rain," was a top-20 and gold record hit in the USA. H... [more]

Pelzer, David J.

Pelzer was the third of five children of alcoholic parents. His father deserted the family, and David was horrifically physically abused from the age of four by his alcoholic birth mother (... [more]

Poutu, Liana

Poutu is a tamaiti whangai, raised with her younger sister by her grandparents after their parents separated, when Liana was eight. She was an ideal child, academic and active in sports and... [more]

Quinn, Phil

Quinn and his brothers went into care when their parents' violent marriage ended in divorce. After a number of foster placements, he wound up in an adoptive family where he was systematical... [more]

Smith, Robyn

Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her father deserted her and her mother (who was 17 when she was born), and her mother was declared mentally unstable by the courts, who placed Melody in a... [more]

Wright, Richard Nathaniel

Wright was born on a Mississippi plantation, where his father was a sharecropper and where his ancestors had been slaves. In 1913 or 1914, Wright's father left the family for another woman.... [more]