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Estrangement: Why are adult children cutting off their parents?

Life Examined

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The Rise of Family Estrangement

I certainly think that it's on the rise for a variety of reasons. I mean, we have to assume that throughout recorded history that families have pulled apart and broken apart. The biggest change that happened in the past half century is that it's just the nature of the moral framework that guides family life where for really millennia, it was families forever.

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