BROKEN HOME Definition & Meaning

broken home

[ broh-kuhn hohm ]

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noun

a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion:
children from broken homes.

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Origin of broken home¹

First recorded in 1840–50

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I came from a broken home, and I was just like, “This isn’t my path — I’m not gonna repeat this thing.”

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I didn’t come from a broken home, and I had the best of everything, but, yet, I didn’t have what I would have liked to have had, which is full communication.

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Israeli soldiers, and some civilians from Israel and abroad, come to see the broken homes, and hear accounts of the devastation, in order to understand what happened.

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But no one wants to see broken homes.

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She likened her peers to abused children who still crave a broken home.

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