The word 'upbringing' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the way someone has been brought up – the environment, values, and attitudes that a person has been taught since childhood. Example sentence: His father's strict upbringing led him to have a strong sense of responsibility.
She was cut off by sex and he is cut off by upbringing from the cultures of their respective parties.
Both are English by birth and Australian by upbringing, though by no means impartial.
But they – or, at least, those he made before becoming governor of California – also form a crucial part of my upbringing.
After a traditional upbringing in the royal court and with no formal modern instruction, the king capitalised on this heritage.
Over coffee one day, when she was about 75, she recounted the sad, sorry tale of her upbringing and how it had affected her – how she became a delinquent in her adolescent years and how badly she had treated her mother.
This had a lot to do with her painful shyness as an adolescent, the result of a complicated upbringing.
"If I wore a kimono today I wouldn't be as comfortable as a Japanese lady, because I don't have the cultural upbringing to look like a lady in it," she says.
It was from this modest upbringing that the former Texas governor said he came to understand the "unshakeable family bond" and importance of giving back to the community.
He must have felt we were thinking about the privileged upbringing, the pushy father, the Millfield School education, the seamless progression through representative-age group cricket, the Chosen One status with Chris Adams, the voice and the looks of one of The Entitled, just a few days after this lot had assumed political power.
"I believe my upbringing could have been better and I should have been protected more as a child, but I understand why that wasn't the case".
During my rationalist upbringing, I was constantly indoctrinated with stories of the way in which the church in general - and the Roman Catholic church, which built our cathedrals, in particular - placed the worship of God ahead of the welfare of men.
