broken home
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈbroʊkən hoʊm/
:
hogar desestructurado
- Growing up in a broken home can lead to feelings of insecurity and abandonment.
- come from a broken home
So it's just, we live in a society where there's so many broken homes.
- So it's just, we live in a society where there's so many broken homes.
- So a lot of the guys that come through they, they, they come from troubled backgrounds or broken homes.
- The the, the only problem with that, James, is, you know, we were all young lads from broken homes.
- Just because you and I came from the same hood, are both black males, both came from broken homes.
- And these kids come from broken homes and they were just wild and very difficult to contain and control.
- Typical, you know, broken home sharing time.
- A lot of broken homes, a lot of growing up in rough neighborhoods, gangs, regular great lives.
- You have individuals that grow up in broken homes or, or say, listen, you know, I was an immigrant family, divorced couple, whatever.
- Then this other child raised in a broken home, neglected told it they can't make yet they rise to be a leader in America to be a leader in our world.
Examples
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I grew up in a broken home and I don't want the same for my son.
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Perhaps even more significant is the evidence of behavioral problems among children from broken homes.
Academic text (1992) -
I come from a broken home, and we're poor, okay?
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It's going to be hard enough being a child from a broken home.
Blog text (4) -
Others come from broken homes.
Fiction book (1996) -
A lot of these kids that I meet now, they come from such sad backgrounds, you know, broken homes or no home at all.
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Of course I must say, it must be doubly hard on you coming from a broken home.
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And, in my experience, children from "broken homes" often grow up to be more successful, more well-rounded people
Blog text (3) -
Low-income families, absentee fathers, broken homes.
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To the country's youth, 75 percent of whom are coming from broken homes, they have an us-against-the-world posture that youth loves.
Fiction book (1994)
Antonyms
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Morphology
The phrase is a metaphorical extension of the literal meanings: 'broken' (damaged/not whole) applied to 'home' signals that the household or family is not intact. While learners who know both words can infer a problem or disruption with the household, the specific sense of parental separation/divorce and its social implications is not fully predictable without prior exposure, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Broken home comes from the picture of a home that is broken, like a house with a split wall that can no longer hold the family together. So it is used to mean a family where the parents are 'separated' or 'divorced', and where children often face more problems.