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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw on Dr. Phil the other day that 1 in 4 families are dealing with estrangement where adult children are completely cutting off their parents ([i][b]not due to any real abuse, abandonment, neglect[/b][/i], etc.).  I see so many videos on instagram/facebook/etc. where people are advocating that you cancel your parents if they do not validate your feelings or don't agree with you.  What is wrong with our society?  Why are we throwing away our parents so easily. I think that it doesn't help that therapists these days encourage their clients to break away from their folks rather than repair the relationship.  I also noticed that these days everyone is using all the same lingo: "toxic," "narcisstic," "gaslighting," etc.[/quote]

What is this assessment based on? Reports by the parents or the kids?

Everyone I know who is estranged from their parents has a very good reason to be, and it tends to be a reason their parents know, but don’t “agree” with. [/quote]

Of course there are always two sides to every story and you only hear one side of it. [/quote]

That’s…not really the point though is it?

For example. I know a woman in her 30s whose parents insisted on including her cousin, a convicted violent felon with multiple offenses, in holidays. So she stopped going to holidays because she didn’t feel safe.  Ultimately their decision to prioritize her cousin over her led to her cutting them off. After her cousin died of an overdose they wondered why she didn’t come back to holidays.

They never abused her. They didn’t neglect her. But no matter what their “side” of why they made their choice is, they know the reason they are estranged. But in a report like the above they would fall into this weird category of “no real abuse or neglect” which is why I wonder who is doing this reporting. [/quote]

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