The phrase "alienated children" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing children who feel isolated or estranged, often in relation to family dynamics or social situations.
Example: "The study focused on the psychological effects of divorce on alienated children and their coping mechanisms."
Alternatives: "isolated children" or "estranged children".
The baritone Thomas Hampson gave an anguished performance of "You're Late," the aria of an irresponsible father, encountering his alienated children at the funeral of their mother.
While the extent of the crisis among alienated children and teenagers is evident, however, nobody working in the field claims to have any answers.
The kind of random violence that seems to haunt the United States -- shootings by frustrated investors or alienated children -- is virtually unknown here.
What Don, the son of a prostitute who died in childbirth, wanted in the end was a woman who he believed would serve as a warm maternal presence not only for his alienated children but also for himself.
The husky-voiced baritone Louis Otey was a blustery Sam, who emerges from near-catatonic silence at the funeral to denounce his feckless, alienated children when they finally arrive.
The toys enable fathers and sons to play together, says Fumiaki Ibuki, the editor of Toy Journal, a trade magazine, who suggests that parents might want more direct contact with their offspring because of disturbing, much-publicised stories of alienated children committing murder.As if to underline their success, recent top-selling toys in America and Europe have been Japanese.
"It's a difficult journey into the psyche of an alienated child," says Miller.
"Review" 's tragic punch line is not really the worst outcome of Forrest's acts — the bloodshed, the alienated child — it's the moment he pulls himself together to deliver a rating.
Mr. Burton, the self-professed alienated child of a dysfunctional family in Burbank, Calif., who funneled his loneliness, pain and grief into drawing cartoons, has found fame, fortune and a beautiful companion (Helena Bonham Carter) by telling cinematic tales of sensitive misfits triumphing over, or succumbing to, a world of repressive mediocrity.
The father of one of the dead put the focus on gun laws, challenging a system which let Rodger, an angry, alienated child of privilege and divorce, legally buy two Sig Sauer P226s and a Glock 34 Long Slide from federally approved stores and register them in his name.
Eventually the scenes stretch out longer, as the seasons pass and Kemp kills time (though not the unflappable Grace) by baring his soul to his captive audience, discussing the brutal neglect of his childhood — he was an effeminate, alienated child with a malicious mother and a mentally disturbed father — and his bitter resentment of his aunt's failure to offer him any help.
