family crisis
Domestic turmoil erupts
A family crisis is an acute period of distress or instability within a family unit—illness, death, divorce, job loss, addiction, or other disruptions that strain relationships and require urgent attention.
The term implies a situation beyond ordinary difficulties: The arrest sent the family into crisis.
Family crisis often appears in discussions of intervention, counseling, or social services.
- turmoilViolent disturbance or confusion
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
- broken homeFamily split by separation
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
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- family therapymarriage therapy, relationship counseling, co-parenting, child therapy, premarital counseling
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- Sentencing Factorsmitigating factors, aggravating factors, extenuating circumstances, criminal history, prior record
family crisisfamily harmony
Peaceful coexistence among relatives
family stability · domestic bliss · happy family · family unity · domestic tranquility
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