A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement:
Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century......
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ESTRANGED: When feeling good about ourselves matters more than filial duty...
‘We haven’t heard from our son in five years. We thought, with the pandemic and all, that he’d finally reach out with just a “Hey, wanted...
Adult Children Far More Likely to Be Estranged From Dad Than Mom
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many young U.S. adults are estranged from their parents, at...
Could peace deal between Prince Harry and family ever be brokered?
Not even the death of his grandmother warranted a ceasefire in the social media war of words against Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan....
How to know when it’s time to walk away from a sibling
By Kristen Rogers, CNN Updated 3:14 AM EST, Thu January 12, 2023 CNN — As Prince Harry’s accounts of a troubled relationship with his...
The Key to Escaping the Couple-Envy Trap
Remember that even the partnerships you admire have periods of boredom, burden, or dissatisfaction. ~By Joshua Coleman As a couples...
When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs...Are We Helping or Harming?
by Dr Joshua Coleman Jeremy’s parents divorced when he was three. For the first two years after the divorce, Jeremy saw his father every...
What's Ripping American Families Apart?
by David Brooks, New York Times At least 27 percent of Americans are estranged from a member of their own family, and research suggests...
Radical Acceptance.The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark....
By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life. Terrible things can happen. You get diagnosed with an incurable...
Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
ATLANTIC, APRIL 18 2020 Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest...
What Makes Adult Children Cut Ties With Parents?
Summary: Mothers who report estrangement from their adult children report they often believe their ex-husbands, and the current partner...
Family Estrangement: Why Adults are Cutting Off Their Parents
Polarised politics and a growing awareness of how difficult relationships can impact our mental health are fuelling family estrangement,...
Family Estrangement: Why Rifts Happen and How Families Can Heal
Dr. Joshua Coleman, author of "The Rules of Estrangement", discusses why kids and parents become estranged, how to heal those...
How Many American Children Have Cut Contact With Their Parents?
Unhappily married for many years, Peter (not his real name) waited until his children were grown up before he divorced their mother. He...
When an Estranged Relative Dies, Some Face Grief, Regret and Relief...
Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a relief. When...
What Helping Heal Estranged Families Taught Me About How We Might Bridge Our Political Divide
My brother and I will never agree on anything political. I won’t accept that Hillary is evil, no matter how many videos he sends me, and...
How a Child’s Mental Illness Can Have Tragic Consequences for Parents
Sometimes the most heroic efforts from parents aren’t enough... Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the...
The Reluctant Therapist: Estrangement Between Children and Parents
Estrangement between a parent and an adult child is not uncommon, but the pain, shame, guilt, and embarrassment surrounding a rift in a...
Why People Break Up With Their Parents...
Families used to split up over inheritance and duty – and today the reasons also include boundaries, personal growth and happiness....
Psychologist Joshua Coleman: How to contend with estranged family members "Rules of Estrangement"
Estrangement and stigma go hand in hand. Even if we accept the contemporary parenting precept that every family is a dysfunctional...
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