Sentences with phrase «many dysfunctional families»

Even though Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, the debate over replacing Obamacare has revealed the unified government to be more like a dysfunctional family at a Christmas dinner.

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

But they're learnable — and often taught too damn well to children raised in dysfunctional families.

So please, whatever you do, inspire your offspring to be great entrepreneurs without the «dysfunctional family» approach.

Whether the cause is drugs, alcohol, unemployment, or worse, fighting and abusive behavior are often the norm in dysfunctional families.

The dysfunctional family tropes play out in the film, but one critic found it «charmless and cheerless.»

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

2:11) Not a dysfunctional family — a fellowship, a body.

The point seems to be that the world begins with a dysfunctional family where one son murders another and then runs off and leaves his parents behind so he can marry someone from another land and place.

It is right for the children of that mother, once they have «escaped» to seek to help their brothers and sisters out of that dysfunctional family, or to teach their siblings how to cope with their mother's abuses.

``... 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 family.

I grew up in a largely dysfunctional family, with an alcoholic father.

The same labels lay at the feet of all three, and why shouldn't it, they all started from the same group of people, it's a large highly dysfunctional family.

Would you want to spend time with (or be part of) the dysfunctional family down the street that manages to get into a brawl every day?

If you've ever caught a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond, you've witnessed a pretty good take on society's view of the dysfunctional family.

The counseling services department of Kansas State University describes a dysfunctional family as:

As it is, he tends to reduce the reasons for ghetto violence and the disproportionate crime rate among African - Americans to dysfunctional families.

Dysfunctional families hurt people and so do dysfunctional churches.

The funny thing was that as I worked hard to try to save the church, I was repeatedly told in a joking manner, «We're just a big dysfunctional family.»

From dysfunctional family... from dysfunctional church... I left... and in my journey I left several times more when I encountered the same old traps.They could no longer ensnare me as they had in the past.

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 huge, sprawling, beautiful, dysfunctional family, under the head of Christ, scattered to the ends of the earth, but somehow — somehow — a complete body he uses to accomplish redemption.»

If you came from a dysfunctional family and stopped reading now, you might be tempted to believe that it is impossible to have a genuine relationship with or healthy view of God.

All I could think of was how I was treated by that same dysfunctional family before the cancer.

Clearly today one might say he came from a dysfunctional family, not the one the religious say.

Control is very much at the heart of many dysfunctional families and dissent or independent choices can not be tolerated.

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 can't say for sure if I think being gay is a choice or decided by nature, but it TO ME it seems like most gay people come from a dysfunctional family or didn't fit in with their all american peers and found comfort in the gay culture.

You would be doing yourself and your lesbian friends» a huge favor instead of thinking that all gay people are gay because they come from dysfunctional families.

We are learning not only about chemical dependency but about codependency and the roles played by members of dysfunctional families.

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.

He also believes that the Catholic Church, like the typical dysfunctional family or organization, refuses to engage in self - evaluation and self - criticism.

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.

(Pastor) Ken Blue wrote in his book Healing Spiritual Abuse that he noted a common denominator in the people who came to his church, or for counseling, that had gotten involved in authoritarian, abusive churches: The majority had bad childhoods and deeply dysfunctional families.

Antonio Conte has turned the dysfunctional family that were Chelsea Football Club a year ago into a fully functioning, winning, dream team.

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.

What is a dysfunctional family?

Focusing on your child's need in that moment helps you to put aside the anxiety that a dysfunctional family label creates and gives you the opportunity to be more effective right now.

Child behavior problems can quickly feed into a perception of yourself as having a dysfunctional family.

If you see yourself and your family that way — or if you've been labeled as one of those dysfunctional families — you're not alone.

You're a functional family but you've got a dysfunctional family room.

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 addiction.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

I have a very dysfunctional family dynamic and I am so passionate about ensuring that Youngling and I change our future and for our family from here on in.

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.

As we organise events and ceremonies to celebrate them, let us also remember their role in saving dysfunctional families, broken homes and bitter marriages.

It failed, he says, because its methods were based on a now antiquated view that dysfunctional families caused psychosis.

If a supervisor is perceived as having favorites, it can have a devastating effect on productivity, akin to sibling rivalry in a dysfunctional family.