How Many Adult Americans Have Very Little Contact With Their Parents?

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Joshua Coleman: The depolarization of our society is also driving many family estrangements. How many adult Americans have very little contact with their parents? It's around 10% with mothers and close to 20% with fathers, he says. One large study out of Cornell found that some 27% of adult children over the age of 18 have no contact with some family members.

Joshua Coleman is a psychologist and senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families. He is the author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict.

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.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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