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Estrangement: Why are adult children cutting off their parents?

Life Examined

CHAPTER

The Myth of Estranged Parents

It's kind of a myth about a strange that, well, if a parent is estranged, they must have done something pretty terrible. Some certainly are percentage of parents who become estranged because they've abused or neglected or harmed their children in some ways. But these days, there are many pathways to a strange,. People become estranged over political differences. They become estranged after the parents divorce. The adult child can get married to somebody who says to the parents, choose them or me. You can't have both Mental illness in the parents, certainly, but also mental illness in the child.

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