When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son.

And every week I received frantic phone calls from John's father pleading with me to straighten out his troubled son.

The price he paid was high - an alcoholic wife, a troubled son, a world of enemies - and his fall might be called admonitory.

In an apartment nearby lives a poor family with a troubled son prone to violence.

A couple were found dead at their apartment in Newark yesterday, and their troubled 17-year-old son was being questioned about their deaths, the authorities said.

Her troubled son (Adam Scott) is first jailed on a drug charge and then charged with murder, obviously a setup.

One woman who sent her troubled deaf son to the program remembered her anxiety when she initially could not find a hospital that would admit him.

She worked nights as a security guard in Manhattan, and had raised three children, one of them a troubled 19-year-old son still at home.

Travolta played the lead detective on the case and Byrd his troubled son.

If she bemoans a troubled teenage son, I consider stress as a possible cause of her lower back pain.