Leaving the Nest: Why is Parental Estrangement a Trending Topic?
Have you noticed that there’s a surge of influencers whose audiences are primarily adult children who are estranged from their parents? Joeita Gupta made this observation of her own social media algorithm, and she went exploring. Joeita speaks with an estranged adult child, and experts from this field of study, to figure out if parental estrangement is trendy, or if there’s societal developments that make this a more common occurrence.
Joeita speaks to Andrea, who has been estranged from her mother for many years. Andrea shares the reason she cut off her mother, and the years of abuse that…
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