All 9 Uses

domestic
in
Hillbilly Elegy
(Edited)

Sometimes Mom would take us to a local motel, where we'd hide out for a few days until Mamaw or Papaw convinced Mom to face her domestic problems.
p. 70.5

domestic = relating to a home and family
Mom had a lot of Mamaw's fire, which meant that she never allowed herself to become a victim during domestic disputes.
p. 70.6
Mom was released from jail on bond and prosecuted for a domestic violence misdemeanor.
p. 78.5
I didn't tell the whole story, since I knew I had to choose my words carefully: During Mom's domestic violence case a couple of years earlier, Lindsay and I had let slip some unsavory details about Mom's parenting, and because it counted as a new revelation of abuse, the family counselor was required to report it to child services.
p. 121.4
On top of all that were the drugs, the domestic violence case, children's services prying into our lives, and Papaw dying.
p. 150.6
My closest friends had all seen some kind of domestic strife in their life—divorces, remarriages, legal separations, or fathers who spent some time in jail.
p. 203.7
Why is domestic strife so common in families like mine?
p. 207.9
The statistics are stacked high against them, and many succumb: to crime or an early death at worst, domestic strife and welfare dependency at best.
p. 241.5
Still, shopping for low-income kids reminds me of my childhood and of the ways that Christmas gifts can serve as domestic land mines.
p. 250.7 *

domestic = relating to a home or family

Definitions:

(1) (domestic as in: the domestic market)
relating to a home country

or (much more rarely,): relating to a geographic area that is smaller than a country
(2) (domestic as in: domestic happiness)
relating to a home or family
(3) (domestic animal as in: a domestic animal like a dog)
referring to animals kept as pets or for ranching
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Domestics refers to a household servants. (Rarely, domestic refers to a single household servant.)