Why do some adult children walk away from parents after a gray divorce? Discover what drives estrangement, and how families ...

Laura Wellington, known as the "Doormat Mom" on TikTok, started a Facebook group where other parents who are estranged from ...

There are lots of guidebooks for parents of young children – but what happens when your offspring hit adulthood? A psychotherapist shares her guiding principles for raising grownups ...

When I cut off contact with my mother three years ago, the relief was instant. It wasn’t until a few months later that I ...

No matter how hard parents try to stay close to their kids, there are certain habits they may hang onto that make their kids ...

A 64-year-old man is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars after fatally shooting his estranged wife and her aunt ...

Studies suggest family estrangement is typically the result of accumulated grievances, unresolved conflicts, and mismatched expectations that harden over time. Often, those on either side of the ...

Becoming estranged from a sibling can be devastating, even when it also brings a sense of relief. Here's why it happens, and ...

Evidence of a dad-daughter divide crops up in more recent research on families, too. Fathers and daughters are more likely to ...

I don’t know if I should keep trying to contact him. I have no idea why he cut me out of his life and he hasn’t told me.

Sanchez, 64, received two life sentences and additional prison time for killing his estranged wife and her aunt during a dispute about dinner preparations.

Avoiding contact with your family because they’re abusive is one thing, but these days it seems something as trivial as ...