Sentence examples for a dysfunctional father from inspiring English sources

Jesse's relationship with Walt had always been that of a dysfunctional father and son.

If anything, the drama playing out in the video, between the ravaged LeBeouf and the child ("she represents my inner freako") looked more like a dysfunctional father and daughter at play.

Alternately, you could describe this production as a dysfunctional "Father Knows Best," with Cedric's Donny playing long-suffering, eye-rolling paterfamilias to his crazy surrogate sons, Teach and Bobby.

Who doesn't want to see Ethan Hawke as a burner, weed-selling, dysfunctional father with a heart of gold?

This is the dysfunctional father as heroic antihero (given perfect growling obtuseness by Stacy Keach).

Not only did this dysfunctional father show videos of himself engaging in group sex to his children, the children (now grown) are so confused that their value systems are twisted eight ways from Sunday.

But life gets rougher and rougher--surrounded as they are by street crime, dysfunctional fathers and absent mothers--until Dylan leaves the nabe to attend prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.

"Take Dan Torrance, who is the child of an alcoholic, child of a dysfunctional family, abusive father, and he says, as people do, 'I'm never going to be like my father; I'm never going to be like my mother.' And then you grow up and find yourself with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and maybe you're walking the kiddies around.

The plot revolves around a dysfunctional family, comprising a father, a mother, their daughter and the father's mother.

"It's like coming from a dysfunctional family where the father is abusive, yet he still put clothes on your back and sent you off to college," Mr. James said.

In "August: Osage County," her character squared off with a dysfunctional family following her father's death.