The mother of Adam Mann had come from a troubled home.

For many young people, school has been the safest haven from troubled homes or neighborhoods.

Grants now go to families of prisoners and to a scholarship program for youngsters from troubled homes.

For Klar, sports was a childhood escape from a troubled home.

But hundreds may be living in troubled homes, ignored by school authorities, getting no education and possibly being abused.

That maintains public responsibility for the children from the most troubled homes who need attention most.

What they did next reflects a monumental change in the way cities are dealing with children from troubled homes.

And the most troubled homes would be barred from accepting new residents.

But for most children in troubled homes, life is a quiet, desperate struggle.

He was a precocious child from a troubled home in the Bronx.