He was unlucky in his dysfunctional parents, a philandering, disappearing father and a hysterically smothering mother.

The book recounts Walls' and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents.

They wanted to claim me as a brother and anoint my mother and their fathers as our dysfunctional parents.

It threatens innocent children yet does little to put dysfunctional parents to work.

Looking deeper, though, it becomes clear that we are better off for having been touched by these dysfunctional parents.

The recovery movement is filled with stories of children who grew up having to take care of emotionally dysfunctional parents.

Or just one more bit of neurotic behavior from a dysfunctional parent?

Most dysfunctional parents refuse to apologize or make amends when they make a mistake - even a really obvious one.

Like Chelsea, they actually seem to like their dysfunctional parents.

Excellent parents sometimes produce truants, and model students can have very dysfunctional parents.