abandonment

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While some states still enforce these laws, they often include exceptions, including parental abandonment or failure to provide support, which would relieve the adult children of any liability.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

She was subsequently arrested on suspicion of animal abandonment and resisting arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Kurdish education department worker Issa said the US abandonment was "a major blow to the Kurds".

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

The ITF's General Secretary Stephen Cotton tells the BBC that "abandonment isn't an accident".

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

And yet, at the same time—and this is key—no other sport demands and rewards the complete abandonment of the self the way that rowing does.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown