The individual decides how to take what was or is thrown at them, whether they let it beat them to the ground or they walked away from it to start anew.

When my parents divorced, the court decided that I and my sisters were to live with my mom. We were all very unhappy about the situation. We loved our mom, but we had no desire to fully move in with her without any protection from my father. My mother’s house was not a home. It was just a place where we had beds, and where we were continually verbally and physically abused. 

Alexithymia, depression, and borderline pathology are all linked to childhood physical abuse, as well as a broad range of health problems.
(Modestin, Furrer, Malti 20)

There are monsters that need to be battled, due to the broken home that one may come from. 

Coming from a broken home appears to have such a large negative effect on children all the way through adulthood. Whether it be eating disorders, drug habits, low self-esteem, there is a wide range of disorders and issues that an individual is at a higher risk of committing to than someone raised in a “normal” household with positive mental and physical stimulation. 

I thought the abuse was normal home life. I thought that there was nothing I could do and that I had to suck it up because it was my fault. If I wanted things to get better, I had to make them better. I felt the need to cater to my mother in order to keep the abuse at bay. 

When children grow up in broken homes, negative psychological effects are developed and more often than not, continue on in to adulthood.
                                                                          -(Modestin, Furrer, Malti 20)

I was already broken, nothing I did helped the situation at home. I was powerless as to escaping the House of Hell.

Children reared in broken homes develop relatively low levels of self-control.
                                                               -(Boutwell, Beaver 489)
 Drowning in too much misdirection.

Parents are a model for their kids as to what they are supposed to act like, and what behaviors they accept.
                                                                              -(Önder, Cenkseven, Yilmaz)

 Some children irrespectively of home background or structure may work hard and become successful in life.
                                                                            -(Alika, Edosa 257)

A broken home will scar a child, but they can still set up successful lives for themselves. Just because they were born into an unfortunate environment, they are not doomed for failure. 

Everyone has things they want to forget and don’t want to define who they are.

 It only makes sense that you look at people as far as who they are trying to be, going to be, or who they are now.

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