Across dinner tables and family group chats, a subtle but significant trend is emerging: more Baby Boomers are disengaging from their adult children—not with dramatic confrontations, but with quiet ...

The more the preoccupied attachment parent pursues the avoidant adult child to have a closer relationship, the more smothered ...

That stoicism you're trying to maintain isn't doing you any favors right now. The shock and grief of being cut off by your adult children deserve your full acknowledgment, not your brave face. Your ...

Five-plus years for mothers, seven-plus for fathers. Less than five years, in most cases. All of these timelines have appeared in various research studies on estrangement between parents and adult ...

Tense relationships or estrangements between parents and adult children are becoming increasingly common. There’s hardly a day that goes by that I don’t hear about these in therapy with a parent or an ...

Ghosting someone isn't just a term for dating anymore; it's now a grim reality for a lot of families. More parents are discovering that their adult children have cut off all communication with them ...

In The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, theologian-mom authors expose a dozen myths promoted by a “biblical” parenting ...