Sentence examples for abusive homes from inspiring English sources

Many of the problem behaviors seen regularly in the foster care and child welfare systems (from parental substance abuse, mental illness, harsh parenting practices, and physical abuse) are either maladaptive strategies to deal with unaddressed abuse or dysfunctional parenting behaviors learned from abusive homes.

"Kids are shuffled around in abusive homes.

Others are abandoned or seized from abusive homes.

His mother was a counselor who helped children cope with abusive homes, he said.

Also, it is doubtful that teen-agers from abusive homes would benefit from such a law.

Not all addicts are poor, or very rich, or come from abusive homes.

A childhood spent in an abusive home, where an abundant marijuana crop grew out back.

That was before I adopted Shadow, who had been rescued from an abusive home.

For Mr. Leal, St. Clare's was a refuge from an abusive home.

Domestic guests may have grown up in care or fled an abusive home.

Leaving a child for too long in an abusive home situation has dire effects.