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Dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family affects familial ties and creates conflicts in the same family space. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly. Children that grow up in such families may think such a ...
Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), [1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique. [2][3][4] As a philosophy ...
Telephone (American English and Canadian English), [1] or Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English), is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in the ...
Childhood trauma is often described as serious adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). [1] Children may go through a range of experiences that classify as psychological trauma; these might include neglect, [2] abandonment, [2] sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical abuse, [2] witnessing abuse of a sibling or parent, or having a mentally ill parent.
Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community's history and culture and reduces social capital. It often shifts a neighborhood's characteristics, e.g., racial-ethnic composition and household income, by adding new stores and resources in previously run-down neighborhoods.
Nonunion. Nonunion is permanent failure of healing following a broken bone unless intervention (such as surgery) is performed. A fracture with nonunion generally forms a structural resemblance to a fibrous joint, and is therefore often called a "false joint" or pseudoarthrosis (from Greek pseudo-, meaning false, and arthrosis, meaning joint).
Music. "Broken Home" (Papa Roach song), a 2000 song by the band Papa Roach. "Broken Home", a 1989 song by White Lion from Big Game. "Broken Home", a 2008 song by Greydon Square from The C.P.T. Theorem.
A hoarse voice, also known as dysphonia or hoarseness, [1] is when the voice involuntarily sounds breathy, raspy, or strained, or is softer in volume or lower in pitch. [2][3] [clarification needed] A hoarse voice can be associated with a feeling of unease or scratchiness in the throat. [2] Hoarseness is often a symptom of problems in the vocal ...