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159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas

We Can Do Hard Things

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The Baby Boomers Are the Great Divorce

Research shows that if you're not 100% aligned with your child at all times, it's worse for the kid. The baby boomers see themselves as products of 1960s where they rejected authoritarian parents. And so I find that many of the estrangement of kids later on in life are children of baby boomers. They feel like they didn't get it in either direction and then tried to do something different from their children.

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