On Mommyish.com (click the link below the quote to bring up the page and read the rest): Even though I really love my father, I’m beginning to hate Father’s Day. The only silver lining is that I now I have a husband and kids, and I see the potential for Father’s Day to be a…
Internet Finds
Estranged Parents Blog. I Am One of the Estranged Parents. – annebulger.com
In my story, I had to learn that my children’s alienation from me could never be commensurate with any mistake I ever made with them. I had to learn about the retrospective guilt that every parent can feel when evaluating our history of parenting our children. I had to learn that who I am is…
Nancy Lee’s New Book: “Banished” – Grandparents Denied Access
via www.grandparentsdeniedaccess.com
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
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.
For estrangers who have cut off from “toxic” mothers
I don't usually post links to articles that are of a certain hostile and angry spirit. Today I am making an exception for the link posted below. I was surprised to find this article. In the comments in response, I can see that there are a lot of people who related to it. Me not…
Huffington Post Articles on Estrangement
After writing the previous post I went back and read Katie Naum's post on Mother's Day Cards again. Noticing the subject tags listed with the post, I clicked one of them, the "Estrangement" one. That brought up a list of posts on the subject, including two written in 2014 by Katie Naum that gave some…
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,…