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…
For Parents
On Mother’s Day(s) & Estrangement
Not having addressed the emotions surrounding Mother’s day and estrangement for years here on this blog, I found myself thinking about the subject and about what to say. Or whether to write a post at all or just let the day go by post-free as I’d been doing.
I am sitting myself down here to think while I type to see what occurs to me on this day, one of the more painful days to have to get through for mothers who have been estranged. A day which also can be painful for many who are estranged from a mother with whom they had had a loving affectionate relationship prior to estrangement. What to say?
NY Times Article on Family Estrangement, Dec. 20, 2017
Debunking MythsAbout Estrangement New research challenges the deeply held notionthat family relationships can’t be dissolved andsuggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon.Article by Catherine St. Louis, Dec. 20, 2017
Recently Published Books on Family Estrangement
Estranged Stories, ebook version. by Elizabeth Vagnoni, Mary Cay Reed. Available for Amazon Kindle Fire®, Apple iPad®, Android devices, and Mac or PC computers. Currently (as of Dec. 17, 2017) priced at $15.99. Estranged Stories Understanding. Support. Peace. Hope” by Elizabeth Vagnoni, Mary Cay Reed. Blurb 2017. ISBN-10: 0615937683, ISBN-13: 978-0615937687. This is the print…
Support Group: “You’re Not Alone: Estranged Parents of Adult Children”
Closed group on Facebook: "For all who have suffered the loss of a child to the pain of estrangement." Click on either of the images below to go to this support group on Facebook. Anyone can ask to join or be added or invited by a member.
Links to Facebook Pages on Family Estrangement
The following are links to Facebook pages where family estrangement is a topic of discussion, advice or information. The pages that were found are specifically about estrangements of parents from their children. These are all of the Facebook Pages that I found on the subject. Reflections on Life Support Page for Parents of Estranged Adult…
University of Cambridge Study on Family Estrangement in Adulthood
Hidden Voices, University of Cambridge Study on Family Estrangement in Adulthood by Lucy Blake in collaboration with Becca Bland, Chief Executive of Stand Alone and Professor Susan Golombok, Director of the Center for Family Research at the University of Cambridge.
May 9, 2015 Keyword search: “Mother’s Day” & “Estrangement”
The following four links are the result of an internet search using keywords: "Mother's Day" and "Estrangement". The links are to articles recently posted and to articles that didn't have those annoying popups that appear all too often these days. Mother’s Day Cards I Could Use As An Estranged Daughter by Katie Naum, writer, blogger,…
Is your Estranged one a professional diagnostician in their own mind?
A common experience that is talked about in a lot of groups where family estrangement is discussed is the one of being labeled with a pathological condition by the person from whom you are estranged. With their only qualifications being that they are related to you and that they knew you once upon a time,…
Online memoir by a daughter of a mother “erased” by PAS
It is rare to see an account of the experience of Parental Alienation Syndrome given from the perspective of the child. This link is to an online memoir by the child, now grown up, and writing about her experience. Her descriptions of events as she remembers them are riveting. Mother Erased: a memoir written by…