At the age of 15 he left his impoverished home to earn living as a coal miner in Germany.
Ethel Waters was raised in a violent, impoverished home.
She described an impoverished home dominated by rage and a brutal father who beat wife and children alike.
At first, he thought of it as a brotherhood, a haven from his chaotic, impoverished home on the city's West Side.
The students are predominantly black, and most are from impoverished homes.
He grew up speaking French in an impoverished home with an abusive father who was a mill worker.
Finally we must correct the assertion by an opponent of the mural that "kids from impoverished homes" were "brought" to the block.
Many of the Bra Boys came from impoverished homes and families torn apart by drug use.
The children in financially impoverished homes simply didn't receive as much verbal stimulation.
Experts suspected the practice to be more rampant in impoverished homes.