Dr. Richard Blake shares steps that may help repair parent-child estrangement, from stabilizing mental health to avoiding ...

Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of ...

Estrangement, and especially the estrangement of adult children from their parents, has been a big topic in the past few months. Oprah Winfrey invited a panel of therapists to talk about the “rising ...

It is fast approaching the holiday season and never is research on parent-child estrangement more salient than now. Yet it is not only the holiday season when people think about their family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I was just completely devastated," said Wellington. Her daughter, 27, "had been given the world," she said. "To me, the most ...

Adult children are making it a priority to set boundaries with their parents by doing things like shutting down unplanned ...

More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family. Several recent studies, ...

Parents are blaming bad therapy advice for why their adult children choose to cut off communications with them. About a third of parents with estranged adult children claim the breakdown in their ...

I find myself caught in the middle. I care about everyone involved. I sympathize with my parents’ sadness and confusion, but ...

Family estrangement has become increasingly common in the US — but experts stress that reconciliation may still be possible after relatives have cut ties. A 2025 YouGov poll found that 38% of US ...