Sentences with phrase «kids in a dysfunctional family»

At the workshop, Levinson recounted how, as the youngest of four kids in a dysfunctional family, he was sexually abused and neglected as a child.

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The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

This witty and knotty comic portrait of a dysfunctional New York family unpacks the emotional baggage of three adult siblings played by Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Elizabeth Marvel — the kids of a New York sculptor, Harold (Dustin Hoffman, in a shuffling self - possessed performance).

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

The first major disaster sequence (which starts, I kid you not, with a character saying, «It feels like something's coming between us,» right before an abyss in the ground separates them) has the dysfunctional family dodging cars, falling interstates, and collapsing buildings, and that's before they get in a plane.

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

We have many invisible at - risk kids with dysfunctional families in schools in which few teachers can also act as counselors.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilKids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilkids living with affluence and stability.

These days, it has become totally acceptable for education leaders to blame poverty for our nation's achievement gap; to in effect say that all those kids can't learn in school because they're hungry, their families are dysfunctional, they are so far behind when they start Kindergarten that there's just no catching up, etc..

The inner - city kids going nowhere from broken and dysfunctional families would learn self - discipline and other values necessary for success in life, breaking the intergenerational cycle of hopelessness, and some of the lefty kids might become a tad bit more patriotic... or at least not so hateful of our military.

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.

Due to years of experience working with children in various educational settings and my background of working with the addictive family system, I am able to be particularly successful with kids who are growing up around addiction, co-addiction and other dysfunctional environments.