Although he ends up having to fetch the hammer himself, the family has not completely disintegrated.

As pressures mounts, it seems her family might disintegrate.

Is not the family disintegrating into bitter frictions largely because of the tyranny exercised by parents over their children?

His mother had committed suicide, his father died two months later, and his family was disintegrating.

The system has grown as families and neighborhoods, devastated by the economy, drugs and alcohol, have disintegrated.

So family, which connects generations to values, to discipline, to hope, disintegrates.

Neighbours watched the family disintegrate as Susan Manning turned to drink to ease the final years of the marriage.

She notes that the novel's title is poignant because Lola's husband dies halfway through and the family subsequently disintegrates.

There is a sense that he at last saw a way of regaining what he had lost when his own family had disintegrated.

Many poor and some middle class families are disintegrating, experts say.