Sentences with phrase «in a dysfunctional family of»

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of noncorfomist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stil the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

The film is based on the memoir written by Jeannette Walls about «a young girl who comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads.

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

A girl named Jeannette (Brie Larson) comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

This time he adapts the memoirs of Jeannette Walls, as played by Brie Larson, a woman growing up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father.

SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

SYNOPSIS: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who -LSB-...]

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Suburban life is highlighted at its most dysfunctional in this best picture Oscar winner that looks at a father (Kevin Spacey) in a midlife crisis and the drama surrounding the rest of his family.

In many ways, the environment of the dysfunctional family is quite similar to that of a start - up.

Former Exec VP of Disney Lee Cockerell shares his life story, how he grew up in a dysfunctional family, and important leadership lessons.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

In the classic»80s movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly journeys back in time to fix the mistakes of his dysfunctional familIn the classic»80s movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly journeys back in time to fix the mistakes of his dysfunctional familin time to fix the mistakes of his dysfunctional family.

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

I'm apprehensive that you'll disqualify yourselves on the grounds that you work in a noisy office or live in a dysfunctional family or don't have much interest in that kind of life.

This fact will probably be lost on the preachers, however, because in most cases they also will have come from a dysfunctional family — one in which expression of emotions is discouraged or repressed, usually through compulsive substance abuse.

West Ham has always liked to represent itself as a family club but increasingly it has the look and feel of one of the many dysfunctional families that regularly turn up in Albert Square; at least if you take notice of the angry brigade that dominate social media.

These included three categories of abuse, two of neglect, and five related to growing up in a «seriously dysfunctional household»: witnessing domestic violence, having divorced parents, or having family members who had been incarcerated or had mental illness or substance - abuse problems.

There was a lot of bickering, put - downs, a near - divorce and other nasty stuff, but I have enough nice memories to make me feel like I had a relatively happy, somewhat dysfunctional suburban childhood in a relatively happy, somewhat dysfunctional suburban family.

In addition to maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Adams is a national lecturer, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addictioIn addition to maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Adams is a national lecturer, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addictioin the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addiction.

We listen to our pediatricians, our friends and family or retreat to the way we were parented ourselves, which usually results in frustration, inconsistency and the development of dysfunctional patterns and unhappy families.

I learned that most of us grew up in «dysfunctional» families and the way that we parent our children is influenced much more strongly by what we subconsciously learned from our own experiences in childhood, than by what we now consciously learn from books.

Those two cases had in common the misguided desire of a self - interested adult member of a dysfunctional family to profit by exposing their child to a media storm.

The Percentage of Low Genetic Risk Adoptees with Schizophrenia - spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Functional versus Dysfunctional Families is shown in the bar graph.

In this study, 36.8 % of high - genetic risk adoptees living in a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a schizophrenia - spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environmenIn this study, 36.8 % of high - genetic risk adoptees living in a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a schizophrenia - spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environmenin a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a schizophrenia - spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environmenin a healthy family environment.

Research suggests risk of developing schizophrenia (for children genetically or biologically predisposed to schizophrenia) may be up to significantly higher in high stress «dysfunctional families» vs. lower stress households.

In addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the listIn addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the listin life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the list).

The information suggests the protective effect of being reared in a healthy adoptive family, with the risk for these high - genetic - risk adoptees developing schizophrenia in healthy families at 5.8 % compared with 36.8 % for those reared in «dysfunctional» families.

Many of us default into the unhealthy patterns we observed in our parents, and the «dysfunctional family» may describe many or even most of our early - life experiences.

and so most of my family is in Beijing which sucks cause sometimes all I want is to have the classic dysfunctional large family gathering.

My mother - in - law (MIL hereafter) has narcissistic personality disorder and her husband is in the early stages of coming to terms with his mother's dysfunctional behaviour and its impact on the family.

-- Found they were too shy to attempt a relationship due to emotional issues from family dysfunctional dynamics — Had physical or mental disabilities that were not diagnosed, or treated, that kept them closed up and to themselves — Buried their themselves in drugs from mental and physical abuse and didn't know what to do when they finally became clean — Where hiding their sexual preferences so did not form any emotional relationships with anyone, except a few friends — Some boomers, even as young teens, found themselves in the position of taking care of a parent, usually a single parent — mother or father

Cooper is to make a remarkable intervention in the lives of a dysfunctional local family, whose appallingly inadequate paterfamilias is Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), a welder of low ambition and low IQ, acrimoniously divorced from his alcoholic wife, and now living with his dubiously loyal girlfriend Sharla (Gina Gershon), who has the unfortunate habit of answering the door naked from the waist down.

In the Season 1 premiere, drunken father Frank is of no use to his dysfunctional family; Fiona meets a handsome stranger when her purse is stolen; Lip is shocked to discover his brother Ian is gay and tries to hook him up with a willing neighbor.

Crusty characters, a bluegrass soundtrack and a dysfunctional family that could exist only in the minds of Hollywood screenwriters make this film more precious than real — or funny.

The most endearing, functional dysfunctional family in all of TV gets off to multiple good starts in the new season of Showtime's The United States of Tara.

In the hands of the Farrellys, the Stooges are, unsurprisingly, made into totems of the duo's favored themes and values: separation anxiety, and the special qualities of home and family, however dysfunctional.

The retired patriarch of a New York - based Chinese - American family finds that escaping the insanity of his decidedly dysfunctional clan is more difficult than he anticipated in a thoughtful family drama from writer / director Georgia Lee.

Some of those parts include Beat author Neal Cassady in Heart Beat (1980), a homeless bum who helps a dysfunctional rich family in the hit comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), a family man attempting to come to grips with his family's traumatic past while falling in love with his therapist in The Prince of Tides (1991), a midwestern basketball coach in Blue Chips, and a world - weary detective in Mulholland Falls (1996).

Of course there's the dysfunctional family element in his one - eyed father, Philip (Kilmer) and his mother, Olympias (Jolie).

However, it does a very good job of showing Kurt as a troubled boy, growing up angry within a dysfunctional family, and the tragedy that evolves from him pretending not to care about being cool while desperately wanting to be loved and failing to deal in a healthy way with any kind of rejection.

The script had already softened Moody's ferocious farewell to his own dysfunctional family, which ends with the revelation that he is Paul, the befuddled son of Ben and Elena Hood, played in the film by Tobey Maguire.

Winter's Bone (R for profanity, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the Ozarks, about a spunky 17 year - old's (Jennifer Lawrence) perilous trek through the Ozark Mountains in search of her meth - dealing father who has jumped bail after putting up their house as collateral.

Academy Award ® Winners Meryl Streep * and Julia Roberts ** star in the darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

The indie dramedy genre is generally characterized by it's portrayal of a dysfunctional family, a haphazard group of friends or a bumbling arrangement of strangers in a scenario where there are multiple revelations, declarations and betrayals, soaked in sappy sentimentality and feel - good moments.

In what should be a whimsical tale of an oddball dysfunctional family, we never really get the sense that we know them, mostly because the chemistry is so absent that none of them really seem to know one another.

To immerse herself in the character, Marvel spent several weeks getting to know her onscreen brothers, played by Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, and exploring the chemistry of a close but dysfunctional family.