Moreover, the breakdown of family ties has not escaped France's Mediterranean neighbors.
The summer heat wave has exposed not only France's slavish devotion to August vacation, but also the breakdown of family ties.
And Mr Hu will not want a breakdown of commercial ties with America ahead of the G20 and Mr Obama's visit to China in November.But nor can he let Mr Obama entirely off the hook.
Kidnappings have also risen, while hardly a month goes by without violent riots in Brazil's brutalised, overcrowded prisons.Drugs, rising unemployment, and the breakdown of community ties caused by migration all play a part.
The relationship between the Islamic republic and the country it calls "Little Satan" has been fraught, encompassing an invasion, a coup, an embassy siege, economic sanctions, a fatwa and the breakdown of diplomatic ties on multiple occasions.
On the nature of the issue, we must nevertheless remain alert and cautious, especially because the breakdown of social ties through the medicalization and technification of the body often occurs gradually.
A common concern was the breakdown of social ties as millions moved from small towns where everyone knew everyone to the anonymous city.
"When a child's parents or siblings are addicts, the child may be affected by breakdown of family ties, family income loss and possibly abuse.
For their parents, it is a way to resume their works without placing their children in residential care institutions, which often brings to breakdown of family ties and violation of the children's right to live in the family.
As portrayed by Ugarte, however, the younger Julieta would not have seemed out of place in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! or High Heels, a reminder that the ghosts of Almodóvar's back catalogue (highlighted here by the iconic presence of longtime muse Rossy de Palma) are as present as the past lives that haunt our heroine.
