Dear Eric: My brother has children with whom I was extremely close when he and his wife got divorced in 1989. He never supported his kids, never paid child support and drank away everyone’s money, ...

While it is common to say that rates of estrangement are skyrocketing, this is not the case. Estrangement used to be a secret, sensitive topic, and was not studied or quantified. Parents would say to ...

What are you doing for the holidays?”—stirs up feelings of loneliness, alienation, shame, and stigma for the estranged.

I believe I’m doing the right thing by keeping my teenagers away from her because I know how she treated me throughout our childhood and young adult years. She is not a safe person.

The prototypical image of a grandparent is usually a smiling, approving older adult who radiates warm fuzzies towards a grandchild. Unfortunately, for many grandparents, this image is only a ...