Dysfunctional Families Quotes

I don't think people who are already burdened with social, economic, psychological situations, dysfunctional families, need to be burdened with other people with the same problems.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

... miserable and almost friendless objects are ushered upon the stage of life, inheriting those vices, which idleness, and the bad example of their parents naturally produce.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

I don't believe in happy families.