Children who grow up
in dysfunctional families where they may feel unheard may come to adopt the role of the Lost Child (Bradshaw, 1988).
Often
in dysfunctional families where a child feels unsupported or ignored, that child will take it out on a sibling because for any number of reasons she fears that going directly at the parent would crash her own fragile world, regardless of how unpleasant it may be.
Not exact matches
-- 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
Adapted from a novel by James Baldwin, the film is a love story set
in Harlem during the 1970s
where Fonny (Stephan James) and Tish (Kiki Layne) find solace
in each other to distract from their
dysfunctional families.
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.
It sounds puke - awful: a formula farce about a
dysfunctional family from New Mexico that hops
in a VW bus and heads to California,
where seven - year - old Olive (Abigail Breslin) will enter the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and teach her elders what really matters
in life.
Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Kathryn Hahn and Corey Stoll, the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper «s novel will follow a
dysfunctional family in which the father's death forces the four grown siblings to spend a week together
in the house
where they grew up for the first time
in a decade.
We soon find ourselves
in a medieval community (what's past is prologue...), ruled by a
dysfunctional family,
where water is scarce and prisoners like Max are used as «blood bags» to revive injured warriors.
I've not reached the stage yet
where I had to recruit beta readers for my own stuff, but I have done quite a bit of beta - reading for friends with shorter works, and recently attempted to beta - read a novel for someone, but real life got
in the way (my
family is so
dysfunctional it's not even funny), and I had to drop it.
Years after Skip escaped his
dysfunctional family to attend boarding school, they locate him, dragging him back into their lies and schemes,
where he finds himself wrapped
in a murderous plot.
AIG,
in this sense, resembles a large and
dysfunctional family,
where no one shared anything with anyone, even Mom and Dad.
As I approach the point
where I am exhausting the alternatives I can conjure up, I realize that the root causes of the justice system's inadequacies might just lie
in the
dysfunctional way that we as a society handle
family breakdown; exploring alternatives to how we restructure
families is the point of this post, whether we're prepared to contemplate social change of this magnitude or not.
The belief that children of divorce could be better off than if they lived
in dysfunctional, but intact
families, is false for most all kids except those
in very high - conflict households
where physical separation was the only immediate choice.