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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 ...
Family estrangement can occur between any two family members, though parent-child estrangement and sibling estrangement are two of the most common types, says Deb Castaldo, PhD, a New York-based ...
Research published in 2023 found that 26% of respondents reported periods of estrangement from their fathers, ... It took—likely—years to result in the current distance between parent and child."
Paul Prather: Estrangement between parents and adult children seems to have increased during an era when many parents have invested unprecedented financial and emotional resources in their kids.
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. [3] [4] The ...
Parental alienation syndrome is a term coined by child psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner drawing upon his clinical experiences in the early 1980s. [2] [3] The concept of one parent attempting to separate their child from the other parent as punishment or part of a divorce have been described since at least the 1940s, [8] [9] but Gardner was the first to define a specific syndrome.
In addition, we reached out to clients who have experienced estrangement to share their stories, without invading family privacy by naming them. We found that estrangement is becoming an epidemic.
Conflict between parents who remain married, often for the perceived sake of the children, but whose separation or divorce would in fact remove a detrimental influence on those children (must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, as a breakup may harm children.) Parents who wish to divorce, but cannot due to financial, societal (including ...