Sentence examples for dysfunctional background from inspiring English sources

You're already coming from a dysfunctional background and going into dysfunctional system.

Her mother brought her up as best she could, but she herself had come from a dysfunctional background and didn't really know how to parent.

Wes Purkey had a daughter, Angie: she could also have told the jury important things about her father and his dysfunctional background.

For the stereotypical prisoner, he or she from a dysfunctional background where opportunities are limited and motivation scarce, seeing a "toff" go down for a taste of porridge can have a gleefully reassuring effect.

If you came from a dysfunctional background and you tried to act out in public, your uncle up the road would give you a clout, a local policeman give you a talking to, or you'd be disciplined at school.

Over the course of the trial, family members, mental health experts and superiors painted a portrait of an unbalanced young man from an extremely dysfunctional background coping poorly with questions about his identity at the very moment he was handling sensitive military intelligence.

"These are all characters from horrific, dysfunctional backgrounds.

It's a kind of romance, if you can imagine a romance between two lonely 12-year-olds from dysfunctional backgrounds.

"The men who have difficulties with pornography, much like many who cannot relate well to others and turn to crime, tend to come from dysfunctional backgrounds, where stringent rules, hypocrisy, unhappiness and even violence abounded," he wrote.

In the case of children who came from dysfunctional backgrounds, or who had previously suffered abuse, the court has a complex task.

EJI found: "[M]ost of the children...come from violent and dysfunctional backgrounds.