Guest columnist Nancy Green discusses the anguish of estranged family relationships, and how the holiday season can bring ...

In 1935, zoologist Konrad Lorenz observed that ducklings and goslings believed the first object they saw or heard to be their parent. When newly hatched ducklings were exposed to Lorenz’s quacking, ...

As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy making plans to spend the day with family – organizing travel, buying presents and looking forward to (or perhaps dreading) long-held traditions. For ...

Bardot is survived by one adult child, Nicolas, with whom she had a complicated, estranged relationship. Here is where ...

This holiday season brings joy to many and sadness to some. But those suffering from family estrangement experience a ...

Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.

Across dinner tables and family group chats, a subtle but significant trend is emerging: more Baby Boomers are disengaging from their adult children—not with dramatic confrontations, but with quiet ...

My husband and I have been married for 25 years. This is a second marriage for both of us and we each came into the marriage ...

Laura Wellington is estranged from one of her adult daughters. The Connecticut 59-year-old is somewhat famous for this, in fact, or anyway famous for her response to it. Across Tiktok and Instagram, ...

Adult children cutting ties with parents is not a new phenomenon. A 2020 study found that 10% of Americans were estranged from a parent or child (Pillemar, 2020). This situation may be even more ...

French actress Brigitte Bardot passed away on December 28, aged 91, leaving behind her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, ...