adults are estranged from their parents, at least temporarily -- with the father/child bond being especially fragile.Those are among the findings of a new national study that tracked thousands of parent-child relationships from the 1990s to recent years....
Disruptive family events and, particularly, children's estrangement from "other" (biological or nonbiological) parental figures turned out to be the most important predictors of being estranged from the "focal" biological parent, especially from fathers. Children expressing stronger familistic attitudes ...
Five Reasons Why Adult Children Become Estranged From Their Parents As for children who are still dependent, it's important to be clear on whether you are supporting or enabling them. What to Do When an Adult Child Asks for Money Many young adults today seem to have the idea that mom and...
Also read HOW TO DEAL WITH HAVING AN ESTRANGED ADULT CHILD. This Monday-morning quarterbacking neglects some basic facts about humans: You Can’t Control Other People We surely have influence over our children, but we do not mold them like clay. When they don’t turn out the way we plan...
Dear estranged parent, I know it’s not easy to feel cut off from your child when you still feel love and maybe even remorse. I know you might feel confused about why your adult child is so upset, and you might even feel angry and wrongly accused. ...
But forum members have developed a habit of pointing to this page as proof that their forums are absolutely distinct from estranged parents' forums, and in some ways, that's no longer true.Forums for estranged parents and forums for estranged adult children have radically different forum cultures...
Smile, dear reader, for there is a saving grace. The saving grace is communication. Unfortunately, it often does not work because the estranged child will not communicate. Most situations are solvable if parents and disapproving adult children can talk. So, my darlings, you are the parent, an...
Stretching the ties that bind: When adult children become estranged from their mothers According to classic theories of norm violation and sanction, groups maintain cohesion through collective norms; however, such cohesion is threatened when ... M Gilligan - Dissertations & Theses - Gradworks 被引量...
Dear estranged adult, What I want you to remember is that it was never really about you, although it might have felt like it at the time and it might feel that way now. When your parents told you over and over you weren’t good enough, that you would never amount to anything, they...
Also read 60 AND ESTRANGED FROM AN ADULT CHILD? HOW NOT TO DEAL WITH IT. This article has generated several important conversations. Many mothers/grandmothers are going through similar realities each with their unique set of situations. Talking and being vulnerable with one another is part of the...