Blaming yourself — or your child — for the cracks in your relationship isn’t going to make things better between the two of ...

Tensions in relationships between parents and their adult children are nothing short of common. Whether they’re caused by the natural kind of disconnection that happens when children leave home or by ...

While a balance between parental warmth, strictness, and expectations all play a role in your adult children’s well-being, ...

The Biggest Obstacle To Repairing a Parent and Adult-Child Relationship, Psychologist Says originally appeared on Parade. Preparing for a baby, having a newborn and then raising a child are big ...

Emerging adult children and their parents can experience growing pains as they navigate a changing relationship. AJ_Watt/E+ via Getty Images As a professor of child development and family science, ...

Adult children's avoidance of visiting their parents is rarely about laziness or ingratitude. It reflects complex, measurable factors including early attachment quality, emotional safety, unresolved ...

Relationships between parents and their grown kids can be incredibly meaningful when worked on intentionally. But too often, old habits of speaking and interacting stand in the way of parents and ...

There's an inherent link between our childhood experiences and our adult realities that many of us are unfortunately unraveling today, struggling with unhealthy coping mechanisms, misguided beliefs on ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...

Research from recent decades shows that versions of Kara’s experience are common for less favored siblings. In childhood, ...

“What I have found over the years is that the greatest obstacle is in getting parents—from different generations, with different childhoods and traumas—to be open, willing and flexible enough to ...