It is characterized by depopulation, economic restructuring, property abandonment, high unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and desolate urban landscapes.

In 1961 it held "266 women and children from 72 fragmented families".

Its characteristics are depopulation, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.

Mr. Wilson's characters, especially his men, are usually restless, often itinerant souls, products of fragmented families and lives interrupted.

You will also contemplate with wonder that, even among modern fragmented families and sin, love and grace are never far away.

As drug dealing and gunfire have grown commonplace, many civil servants have moved out, they said, replaced by poorer, more fragmented families.

Dependency has become the one enduring heirloom, passed from one generation to the next, of too many fragmented families.

When "I," as Steinbeck writes, becomes "we," the fragmented family becomes whole again.

Yuvvraaj is a musical story of a fragmented family of three brothers who try to con each other to inherit their father's wealth.

These days, Americans have greater geographic mobility, smaller, fragmented families and looser ties to community and religious organizations.