Yes, this article is very true. We have had to adjust all our future planning with the estrangement in mind. We can’t expect anything from our estranged children (no contact for 8 and 9 years). Trust is broken. It’s part of moving on and survival.
Exactly! Family is critical when caring for vulnerable folks, for instance, disabled siblings. This maladaptive ideology fails every test responding to the reality of human condition.
Just came across your substack, gotta say, IT IS GREAT! I am 5 years in with our #1 son cutting family ties with everyone, and yes, I know why because he came and explained it to me and it has NOTHING to do with us. I know too many parents experiencing this misery too. Mentally ill kids and spousal pressure are big drivers.
By observation, there seems to be a lot of implied issues with ADHD and ASD as well. We know there has been an epidemic of both in the last 40-50 years with ASD going from 1:10,000 to now 1:35 and climbing. I leave it to RFK Jr and CHD to explain why, but I think many parents struggled with the impacts on their children's ability to navigate emotional landscapes and communicate in non-black & white terms. As these children have aged into maturity, this has resulted in major family conflicts as political and ideological positions widen between the generations and conflict becomes overlaid with therapy speak and grievance amplifying echo chambers.
Yes, that too. The legacy of the Frankfurt School and post-modernists has been very heavy in the arts and education systems at all levels. When I did my MA in critical social psychology around 20 years ago a lot of that as based on the works of post modernists like Lacan, Foucault etc —looking back I was a complete innocent then and thought "critical" merely meant skeptical. Funny thing was the MA level course in Community Psych had CIA associated Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" as one of the texts - little did I know then that the book was one of the grassroots handbooks for the USA's regime change engine now being exposed under Musk's trashing of USAID.
Yes, this article is very true. We have had to adjust all our future planning with the estrangement in mind. We can’t expect anything from our estranged children (no contact for 8 and 9 years). Trust is broken. It’s part of moving on and survival.
Loss of trust is one of the hardest things to face.
Exactly! Family is critical when caring for vulnerable folks, for instance, disabled siblings. This maladaptive ideology fails every test responding to the reality of human condition.
Many thanks, Laura. Watch out for my article on Stepping into Logan's Run later in the week.
Just came across your substack, gotta say, IT IS GREAT! I am 5 years in with our #1 son cutting family ties with everyone, and yes, I know why because he came and explained it to me and it has NOTHING to do with us. I know too many parents experiencing this misery too. Mentally ill kids and spousal pressure are big drivers.
By observation, there seems to be a lot of implied issues with ADHD and ASD as well. We know there has been an epidemic of both in the last 40-50 years with ASD going from 1:10,000 to now 1:35 and climbing. I leave it to RFK Jr and CHD to explain why, but I think many parents struggled with the impacts on their children's ability to navigate emotional landscapes and communicate in non-black & white terms. As these children have aged into maturity, this has resulted in major family conflicts as political and ideological positions widen between the generations and conflict becomes overlaid with therapy speak and grievance amplifying echo chambers.
sure, but I think the extremist thinking (black/white) is rooted in nihilism and doomsday mentality embraced by postmodernist K-12 educators.
Yes, that too. The legacy of the Frankfurt School and post-modernists has been very heavy in the arts and education systems at all levels. When I did my MA in critical social psychology around 20 years ago a lot of that as based on the works of post modernists like Lacan, Foucault etc —looking back I was a complete innocent then and thought "critical" merely meant skeptical. Funny thing was the MA level course in Community Psych had CIA associated Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" as one of the texts - little did I know then that the book was one of the grassroots handbooks for the USA's regime change engine now being exposed under Musk's trashing of USAID.