"I walk on anger," Dael Orlandersmith declares in "Monster," her smoldering account of a cruel upbringing in a dysfunctional household in Harlem.

Program of recovery for individuals who were raised in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional household.

In general, there is a lack of social safety services for children living on the street, with disabilities or from dysfunctional households.

(Could you find a more dysfunctional household than Henry VIII's?)

For example when a child is raised in a dysfunctional household, sometimes he doesn't realize the reality of the situation until he leaves and takes a look at things from the outside.

Bremer was raised by his working-class parents on the South Side of Milwaukee and lived in a dysfunctional household.

In his memoir, Edison describes growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish household in suburban New Jersey, and discovering marijuana at the age of fourteen.

In the black comedy "Family Viewing" (1987, $34.39, 96 minutes), a dysfunctional household has geared its life entirely to television and video.

"A lot of the girls come from dysfunctional households, and having a baby is the least of their problems," Mrs. Cannon said.

Ms. Jong was raised on the Upper West Side in a dysfunctional, but not damaging, household.