But it is common. Research by Stand Alone, a UK charity that supports people who are estranged from relatives, suggests that estrangement affects at least one in five British families. One US study of more than 2,000 mother-child pairs found that 10% of mothers were currently estranged from at least one adult child. And one…
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Family Estrangement: Why Families Cut Ties and How to Mend Them – Scientific American
Family Estrangement: Why Families Cut Ties and How to Mend Them From the article: "There hasn't been much research about family estrangement, in part because it’s a difficult thing to study—many people don’t want to talk about their parents or children cutting them off. But in recent years, researchers have been paying more attention, especially…
Article: “Brittle, Broken, Bent: Coping With Family Estrangement.”
Annie Wright: “I want to talk about family estrangement. Specifically, why and how family estrangements happen, how surprisingly common estrangements are (but how we don’t necessarily hear about this!), how to cope with estrangement in your own family, and the rarely-discussed aspect of being estranged from your family that we *need* to acknowledge.” via www.anniewright.com
How to Cope with a Toxic and Estranged Family Relationship
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.” ~Unknown via tinybuddha.com Offers pretty good advice for coping with estrangement.
Family Estrangement – Coping With Being Estranged | Goop
This is a boundary question: What people express and share with other people is a boundary. I feel like every day of work I’m helping people fight against some societal norm that has them really fighting against their own inner core and their own beliefs. When it comes to estrangement in my practice, clients tell…
The Atlantic: Joshua Coleman article on family estrangements
Quoting Coleman: It is sometimes tempting to see family members as one more burden in an already demanding life. It can be hard to see their awkward attempts to care for us, the confounding nature of their struggles, and the history they carry stumbling into the present. It can be difficult to apologize to those…
How to cope with estrangement | Gransnet
If you've lost contact with family, it can feel incredibly isolating – but estrangement is more common than you might think. Research by Gransnet revealed that one in seven grandparents are estranged from their grandchildren, with many more also estranged from their adult children. If you are affected, you may be wondering how to cope…
On the Chicago Tribune: “To those who can’t be with us.”
Over the course of a lifetime what we do on Christmas inevitably changes. This article addresses the changes that occurred in the author's family. To those who can't be with us. By Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune.
Joshua Coleman: Estranged: When . . . cutting off our parents comes to seem like a valid choice.
Provides a link to a recent article by psychologist and author Joshua Coleman with excellent information on causes of family estrangement, reasons for it becoming a fairly common phenomenom, and the difficulties in finding resolution.
“Done with the Crying” Author Sheri McGregor Estrangements Article
October 27, 2017 article: "Estrangement Doesn't Just Happen to "Bad" Moms — It Happened to Me Too" on Goodhousekeeping.com by Sheri McGregor, author of Done with the Crying. Sheri has a website on the subject of family estrangement: RejectedParents.net and a Facebook Page on estrangement. The description of her Facebook Page, "Help and Healing for…