WHY SOME CHILDREN BECOME ESTRANGED FROM THEIR PARENTS
“Recent research and media reports indicate that parent–child estrangement is on the rise.” After daily reading numerous articles on the topic of children becoming estranged from their parents, I wondered what the real cause of this conflict between some parents and some children was. I found it hard to understand why certain children would decide to stop communicating with the two people who brought them into this world, gave them a home, and raised them. After all, I also have a son, and such a problem never arose between us; had something like that happened to me, I would have moved heaven and earth to solve it. One of the things that struck me most was that several of the articles on the topic were titled 'Letting Go of Our Children'; in other words, these essays seemed to accept the possibility that, with some children, there is no other option than to let them go. That was when I decided to try to understand the real cause of these sad separations. Finally, one of th...