broken home

[ broh-kuhn hohm ]

noun

1. a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion:

   children from broken homes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of broken home¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.

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Charlotte Fryett came from a broken home in a depressed inner-city quarter of southeast London.

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But I never really thought about the connection between fusion and broken home.

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Jennifer, after all, was the product of a broken home, her parents having divorced when she was 2.

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The pot goeth so long to the water til at length it commeth broken home.

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She knew only that Snyder was divorced—a child, a broken home.

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It seemed that there was but one person to stand between the children and a broken home, and that person was himself.

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It would be a terrible crime to unite a husband and wife and fix up a broken home!

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The broken home, the broken hearts and here now, his dying boy.

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