Adult children may decide to essentially divorce their parents, choosing estrangement over unhealthy relationships. More and ...

If you always felt like you were second best growing up, it makes sense that you might distance yourself from your parents, the people who made you feel that way, for your safety and self-preservation ...

There is a new cultural trend of adult children becoming estranged from their parents. The trend appears to be heavily influenced by therapy speak — often, but not always, appearing on social ...

And as pretty much any estranged adult child will tell you, efforts toward repairing these traumas are often met with belligerent defensiveness from parents. This brings us to a piece of sage ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. While many of us experience nurturing, heartwarming upbringings, we all know at least ...

Created with Sketch. About 12 percent of older adults are estranged from their adult children. And while some 5 to 6 percent of these parents initiate the break, estrangement is normally set in ...

Healing After Parents and Their Adult Children Become Estranged." "[But] sometimes it can be a very loving thing to say no or to put a limit on how much you're able or willing to help." ...

Tina Gilbertson is a psychotherapist who specializes in supporting parents of estranged adult children, and is the founder of the Reconnection Club, the essential online resource for parents of ...