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Blame anyone but the actions of the ones who provoked the estrangement… masterful take, sir.

Can't possibly have anything to do with having parents who support a fascist regime throwing families into concentration camps and committing extrajudicial murders set to music like it's a TikTok trend.

Orrrr we are just getting sick of turning up to celebrate a nibling’s milestone birthday and getting an earful about how vaccines caused their autism 😡🤬😡

It's driven by hateful and ignorant parents.

I barely talk to my dad. What's going on is they have forgotten what right and wrong is. The people who taught us right and wrong are now supporting people who have done more wrong than most people in prison.

But 99% of the time it’s because the parent was shitty. Until he died my father-in-law acted like the victim when my wife cut contact because he voted for Trump.

Literally the only cases when I felt bad for the parent was when their child was struggling with addiction and they cut contact when their parent refused to enable them or when the child was in an abusive relationship and their abuser isolated them from friends and family (which happened to my bro).

Also, obligatory asterisk because when I say “it’s the kid’s fault,” I’m only saying that because I only have so many characters to type with. I don’t wanna say the kid is to blame for being addicted to drugs or having an abusive partner.

Speaking from experience, no one cuts off from family willingly and without trying every other avenue first. These are parents who have hurt their kids badly and blocked any hope of repairing the damage. If that wasn't the case, no therapist could ever convince someone to cut off.

Uhhhhh I admit I don't even know how to do that, sorry!

perennial dipshit @ebernsteinwsj.bsky.social is no lomger active on bluesky. I can only imagine its because she is a soft baby who does not enjoy being told she is both horrible and wrong

"Many experts" eat shredded glass

There used to be orphanages and 12-year-olds going into service and hardly ever seeing their parents again, but sure.

eat shit

Cutting my mother out of my life was the single greatest decision I ever made. I'm sure she'd love to tell the WSJ how unjust it all is, but not about all the shit she did to the family that made the decision unanimous.

Dude if you're going to keep publishing nonsense like this you best just change your name to "The Wall Shit Journal".

No, it's the shitty parents driving it.

Caused by shifting dynamics that recognize abuse and draw boundaries. How can they pretend to not know this? If you didn’t protect me, care for me, or show up for me, that’s on you. When kids give up family, it is a last resort. All these abusive folks telling on themselves. I said what I said.

My own therapist tells me that "ambiguous grief" - having to grieve someone who's still *there* but is lost nonetheless - is harder to bear than the grief you feel when someone is truly gone. The constant hollowness and endless what-ifs and sorrow and confusion and rage and despair, because WHY??!!

That would be against God's will apparently.

Maybe people are realizing that abusive parents are going to be saddling them with debt and bankruptcy when they need daily care and are cutting bait early? Or are done with trying to heal relationships that the parents take no ownership for.

A lot of parents are dickheads to their kids & people close to them?

I thought it was caused by parents being assholes.

An epidemic of terrible Boomer parents whose brains are absolutely melted by Facebook

Stay in abusive relationships is what I hear you say.