Within dysfunctional families, according to various psychologists (e.g. Wegscheider-Cruse and Kellogg), each family member develops a dysfunctional role. The number of roles, and how they are defined, varies somewhat but eight roles, representative of those so far proposed, are as … Read the rest
8 Dysfunctional Roles Within The Dysfunctional Family
Dysfunctional Families: Types And Effects
What Is A Dysfunctional Family?
A dysfunctional family is one that has at its core destructive and harmful parenting and a lack of concern for the child. The harmful effects on the child may go completely unacknowledged or be … Read the rest
The Dysfunctional Family’s Scapegoat.
I went to live with my father and obsessively religious step-mother when I was thirteen, having been thrown out of the house by my disturbed and highly unstable mother.
She and my father already had her own biological son living … Read the rest
