It may even be reassuring to discover that superachievers like Mozart and Eleanor Roosevelt had dysfunctional childhoods.

A one-act play where a brother and sister try to make sense of their dysfunctional childhood.

The N.F.L. was loaded with players who had mined a loveless, dysfunctional childhood.

These included a dysfunctional childhood, two broken marriages, the accidental shooting death of her only son and battles with alcoholism and diabetes.

This dysfunctional and vicious childhood helped mold Johnson into a criminal.

He also mentions that his inspiration for the macabre tone of Alice comes from his disturbing, dysfunctional childhood.

Much of Korine's work is based around the dark humor and absurdism involved in dysfunctional childhoods, mental disorders, and poverty.

It tells the story of the narrator's struggle to overcome the psychological damage inflicted by his dysfunctional childhood in South Carolina.

Because of dysfunctional childhood experiences a codependent adult lacks the ability to be a mature person capable of living a full and meaningful life.

No dysfunctional childhood, no one who'd ever tried to thwart her career, the love of a beautiful man who treated her like a princess.