The phrase "abusive upbringing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a childhood or early life experience characterized by mistreatment or harm, often in a familial context.
Example: "Many individuals who have experienced an abusive upbringing struggle with trust issues in their adult relationships."
Alternatives: "traumatic childhood" or "neglectful upbringing."
Clearly, his abusive upbringing didn't help.
Bourgeois' spider was the latest work in an oeuvre which had, for 70 years, been based almost entirely on her own abusive upbringing.
I met and interviewed all three of Pastor Phelps' sons who remain in the church: they all have the slight air of being survivors of an abusive upbringing.
The second, conducted in New Zealand, suggested that a combination of low-activity MAOA and an abusive upbringing promotes a violent temper, though low-activity alleles by themselves do not.
In this episode alone, we learn of Ani's abusive upbringing, witness again Ray's difficult relationship with Chad and see the effect the death of Frank's lackey, Stan, has had on his devastated son.
In 2011, she turned what amounted to an abusive upbringing into a stage production called the Life and Death of Marina Abramović, co-starring Willem Dafoe and Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, and in which she played both herself and her mother.
She writes about asking her mother about her abusive and neglectful upbringing, asking her how she managed to be such a good mom to Hillary.
Huntsman had an abusive father and a hardscrabble upbringing in rural Idaho.
Lopez characterized his upbringing as neglectful and emotionally abusive, topics that he frequently probed in his comedy.
Aged 11, Fatima had endured a nightmarish upbringing being passed between an abusive family and Essex care homes, but found solace in sports training with local instructor Margaret.
More significantly, the research highlighted many "deeply troubled young people" whose own upbringings have been damaging and abusive and who have not known "what a relationship of trust looks like".
