In a matter of days another family would be torn apart.

"The Marines are professional as anybody, but the family was still torn up."

She said the strike has reached the point where it is "tearing families apart."

But it was not only repression that tore families apart.

For families torn apart by war, "sending the word" took on special meaning.

Their family is torn apart by the 1994 genocide that claimed more than 800,000 lives.

Those two words can tear people and families apart.

Of course, that big happy family may occasionally be torn asunder.

Every day, I hear from families torn apart by our broken immigration system.

Since I have seen my family torn apart by this hatred.