The idea of a parent has to be nurturing, deferment and understanding you in every respect. When inevitably the parent fails to live up to that, then there's this sort of extreme reaction of you failed me. And I don't owe you anything.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Joshua Coleman discuss why there is a growing number of estrangements between parents and their adult children, how political identification has increasingly become a source of family conflict, and the best strategies for how estranged parents and adult children can heal their relationships.