"When Oprah asked one of the adult children in the audience to explain why he had gone no-contact, he described a situation ...

Some of us grew up in families in which a parent rewrote events, pitted siblings against each other or assigned blame to ...

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

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

Family estrangement is often dismissed as a generational trend, which trivializes the real pain behind most cutoffs. But in ...

That stoicism you're trying to maintain isn't doing you any favors right now. The shock and grief of being cut off by your adult children deserve your full acknowledgment, not your brave face. Your ...

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, ...

Laura Wellington is estranged from one of her adult daughters. The Connecticut 59-year-old is somewhat famous for this, in ...

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 ...

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

Bardot is survived by one adult child, Nicolas, with whom she had a complicated, estranged relationship. Here is where Nicolas is today and why the mother and son shared a strained bond.