Sentences with phrase «than a destructive family»

When family law attorneys expand their scope of advocacy to include a duty to «act honorably» in considering intra-familial relationships, attorneys can oversee a divorce process that results in healthier family reorganization, rather than a destructive family break - up.

Not exact matches

Unlike midrange families, people are often accepted in their differences, and understood to be struggling to do right rather than as inherently hostile or destructive.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

«The Last Family» features three magisterial acting turns: veteran actor Andrzej Seweryn won the Best Acting Award at last year's Locarno for his portrayal of Zdzisław, but he's more than matched by the hyper - active Dawid Ogrodnik as Tomasz, in a role that is as fiercely self - destructive and funny as David Thewlis» memorable Johnny in Mike Leigh's «Naked» (1993).

Haslett paints a portrait of a family grappling with mental illness in alternating POVs over a stretch of more than 30 years, giving insight into how each family member has been affected, in ways hidden and obvious, by a disease that is as invisible as it is destructive.

And yes they Knows the rules, make less mess, Walks the walk, quickly become one of the family, and less destructive than the younger pets.

Their words and actions demonstrate a simple, but epic acknowledgment of their united commitment to reorganize their family in the healthiest way possible, rather than cause a destructive family break - up.

Rather than wasting time and money posturing for costly and emotionally destructive litigation, we offer a solution - oriented approach to families in conflict from the very first day.

We help families learn to make their differences enjoyable rather than destructive.