{"id":32,"date":"2021-06-01T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2021\/06\/01\/the-truth-about-family-estrangement-bbc-future\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:54:06","slug":"the-truth-about-family-estrangement-bbc-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2021\/06\/01\/the-truth-about-family-estrangement-bbc-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about family estrangement &#8211; BBC Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>But it is common. Research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standalone.org.uk\/\">Stand Alone<\/a>, a UK charity that supports people who are estranged from relatives, suggests that estrangement affects at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standalone.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/StandAlonePrevalenceRESEARCH3.pdf\">one in five British families<\/a>. One US study of more than 2,000 mother-child pairs found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4507819\/\">10% of mothers were currently estranged from at least one adult child<\/a>. And one US study found that more than 40% of participants had experienced family estrangement at some point \u2013 suggesting that in certain groups, such as US college students, estrangement may be <a href=\"http:\/\/jpbsnet.com\/journals\/jpbs\/Vol_3_No_2_December_2015\/4.pdf\">almost as common as divorce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20190328-family-estrangement-causes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here for full article.\">www.bbc.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}