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“While the adult child may need space to work through stuff from childhood, they have a good chance of reconciling after therapy and once the parent can own up to what happened,” says Ruan ...
Child abuse in the form of emotional, psychological, sexual, or physical abuse was cited by 13.9% of children who initiated estrangement with one or both parents as a reason for estrangement. Furthermore, 2.9% of estranged parents acknowledged their failure to prevent the abuse. [17] Abuse by siblings is a factor in some estrangements between ...
Coleman cites various studies, including one that found 11 percent of mothers from 65 to 75 years old with at least two living adult children were estranged from a child, and that 62 percent ...
Biller says adult children may (understandably) want to separate or at least keep a narcissistic parent at arm's length to protect their peace. 11. Self-absorbed without self-awareness.
Parental alienation is a theorized process through which a child becomes estranged from one parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent. [1] [2] The child's estrangement may manifest itself as fear, disrespect or hostility toward the distant parent, and may extend to additional relatives or parties.
In some countries, disownment of a child is a form of child abandonment and is illegal when the child is a minor. Some countries condition a legal right of disownment within the family on evidence of specific familial conditions, such as an absence of normal familial ties (required in Austria ), or abuse on the part of the person sought to be ...
More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family. Several recent ...
Sibling estrangement or sibling alienation is the breakdown of relationships between siblings resulting in a lack of communication or outright avoidance of each other. It is a phenomenon that can occur in families for various reasons such as unresolved conflicts, personality differences, distance, or life events.