The Art of Manliness

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What's Behind the Rise of Parent-Child Estrangement?

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Published November 18, 2024 5:00am

These days, you hear more and more about parents and adult children being estranged from each other. Some individuals have even decided to go "no contact" with their parents; they don't want anything to do with their mom and/or dad at all.

To understand what's behind this phenomenon, today I talk to Joshua Coleman, a psychologist who's spent 40 years counseling families and the author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict. Joshua

goes beyond the typical one-sided narratives around parent-child estrangement that tell the story of parents...

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