Hours before I speak to 23-year-old folk musician Clara Mann, she becomes fixated on a viral news story. A deep sea ...

Healthy family dynamics are no easy feat to achieve. While some Gen Zers are nearing 30 years old, some are still just entering their teenage years, navigating family life, high school, and the ...

Dear Abby gives advice to a person who is estranged from their siblings -- yet still exchanges birthday texts with them. fizkes - stock.adobe.com DEAR ABBY: My siblings and I are estranged. I live in ...

It’s common knowledge that some adult children are in long standing conflict with a difficult aging parent. Years can go by. Estrangement is the result. There is no communication at all. Then, as the ...

Even though I had friends, I was still lonely. My friends didn’t understand my reactions. There was a huge void inside me. These are some of the ways that people describe feeling alienated after ...

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 ...

I am estranged from my mother for good reasons. Other siblings are as well. When I have shared the reasons why with friends, they always agree that it’s better not to have such a toxic and awful ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...

As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy making plans to spend the day with family – organizing travel, buying presents and looking forward to (or perhaps dreading) long-held traditions. For ...