When you were growing up,how many of your friends were from broken families?

Question

When, and where were you?

I was raised in Brooklyn, NYC. And it too was easier to count how many families were together than not together.I think I can count about 3.
I was raised late 60's early 70's.

Answer 1

I'm 32 and lived in Metro Detroit, Michigan all my life.

EVERYONE had family drama. There were either the divorced parents or the parents we wished would get divorced to stop all the misery and fighting. Then, there were the people whose parents were never married and whose fathers weren't involved.Heck, my parents weren't divorced because they never married. I was raised by my mothers boyfriend from the time I was 3 until adulthood.

Its easier to tell ya how many actually had intact families. Thats 3. 3 out of the 20 people I was closest to in my teens had both natural parents in the home. One of those parents divorced as soon as their youngest turned 16.

Answer 2

I grew up in California in the 50s, 60s and 70s, about half of my friends were from "broken" families.

Answer 3

None of my friends were from broken families when I was growing up...there was a friend who's dad fooled around with the wife of a guy across the street from his house, but no broken family homes. Every person I knew in grade school and jr high had their mom and a dad at home. I went to high school in ND and everyone I knew there had their mom and dad at home.
Born in Mt Clemens raised in Roseville, MI...46 years old now.

Answer 4

Only one, and it was an oddity. I grew up in a small town in Iowa - all of my friends had both of their parents under the same roof. This was a long time ago - I'm a grandmother (a young one!) and the norm was not divorced parents. I don't know how many might have been in abusive, unhappy marriages either though.

Answer 5

"I grew up in a housing estate in Australia , I'd say about 4 of the families out of the 26 that lived in my street (it was 2 streets joined in a Y , were single parent families , yes mine was 1 of the 4 ".

"As for my friends who I hung out with at school and at disco's and skate rinks , I was the only 1 with divorced parents , when I moved in with my mum for 12 months , it was 3 kids to 12 in my group who were from single families this was back in the 80's".

Answer 6

Very few. I grew up in the fifties and sixties when broken families were not so prevalent or acknowledged. As I've aged and met new people, I've found that more and more people are searching for that togetherness and security they missed growing up including me. I grew up in Western PA.

Answer 7

One or two of my friends growing up came from blended families. This was in the 80's, in the central U.S.

Answer 8

not all but most was from divorced parents. I'm in my 50s and was raised in Texas.

Answer 9

None. I grew up in Ozzie & Harriet's neighborhood. How times have changed.

Answer 10

None that I knew of. From mid Ohio