Sentences with phrase «of a dysfunctional family where»

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-- 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

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.

Subplots such as Fred's troubles with his girlfriend, Willy (Higgins (Evan Almighty) playing Santa's right - hand elf) trying to get together with a lovely fellow helper (Banks, Invincible), Fred's friendship with a precocious African - American orphan (Thompson), and the unendurable dysfunctional family squabbles only add to the feeling that the script by Dan Fogelman (Cars) started with a kernel of inspiration and little knowledge of where to go with it once it is set up.

What emerges is a picture of an insular town where the pace is slow, wounds fester, and dysfunctional families inflict the worst on each other.

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.

This training will discuss risk factors for youth and adolescents from dysfunctional families, specifically homes where a family member suffers from the disease of addiction.

We recently named Jonathan Tropper's This Is Where I Leave You — a hilarious portrait of a dysfunctional family — as one of our 20 unexpected books for your reading group.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Children who grow up in dysfunctional families where they may feel unheard may come to adopt the role of the Lost Child (Bradshaw, 1988).