单词 | broken home |
释义 | > as lemmasbroken home broken home n. a home from which either the father or the mother of the children is absent, usually through legal separation or divorce. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > broken home broken homea1846 single parent (family)1969 a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1853) I. v. 80 I left the vault, and returned to our broken home. 1919 J. C. Colcord (title) Broken homes, a study of family desertion and its social treatment. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iv. 56 The wild-haired progressive-school rejects, offspring of broken homes. 1958 Listener 25 Sept. 480/3 There can be no doubt that a broken home can badly affect a child. 1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. x. 313 The broken home..normally means homes broken by death, desertion, separation or divorce, and often also by long absence on account of illness. < as lemmas |
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