Estrangement often happens to protect one’s mental or emotional well-being, especially in toxic or abusive family situations. Cultural and social pressures can make it harder to distance oneself from ...

Cutting ties with a parent isn't a decision anyone makes lightly. Yet when someone chooses this path to escape abusive or toxic family dynamics, they're often met with judgment and harsh criticism.

But that doesn’t explain why the adult child-parental estrangement is the elephant in our cultural living room. Mind you, when the parent initiates estrangement—ridding the family of the bad seed, the ...

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Families are becoming estranged. Siblings are not talking to each other, and some have disowned their parents and children. If the 20th Century is defined by something culturally, it seems to be ...