Sentences with phrase «abusive alcoholic parent»

Nobody wants to work for a workplace version of an abusive alcoholic parent.

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Many other people's deepest motives are driven by challenging childhoods — economic hardship, for example, or an alcoholic or abusive parent — and their deepest wish is to never again feel the way those challenges made them feel back then.

I was raised Catholic attended Catholic school through 10th grade, my parents were «devoted Catholics» until there deaths in their late 80s, my father was also an alcoholic abusive individual but by golly he went to church on Sunday mornings.

Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.