There’s a rising trend in our culture
I had a long chat with a friend from nursing school, and she discussed the difficulties she and her husband are experiencing with keeping in touch with their grown children.
After a long and detailed discussion we concluded:
There’s a rising trend in our culture that very few people notice and think about: adult-age children cutting off their parents.
I’m not talking about abuse situations or dangerous relationships.
I’m talking about loving, flawed parents who raised their children, gave sacrificially, and are now being completely shut out with no warning, no conversation, and no willingness to reconcile.
I looked into this, and according to research, the vast majority of estrangements between parents and adult children are initiated by the child, not the parent.
Often, the parent doesn’t even fully know why. One day, the phone calls stop. The texts go unanswered. The holidays are silent. And when you finally hear something, it’s often a list of offenses you didn’t even know existed.
Why is this happening?
Because our culture now teaches that anyone who doesn’t “support how you feel” is toxic. Therapy-speak has replaced honor. Social site influencers and pop psychology encourage cutting people off as an act of self-love.
Many adult-aged children are now rewriting their childhoods, relabeling boundaries as trauma, and tossing aside their parents like disposable relationships.
This is rebellion. It’s spiritual deception. It’s pride disguised as empowerment.
If you’re a parent and going through this, you’re not alone.
You’re not crazy. And you’re not a failure as a parent. The goal is to target families, and this is one of his most effective tools right now: deception and division.
You, as parents, still have something to give. Love, advice, presence. Not perfection but something real. And now it just sits there, wasted. Not because you've failed, but because your children are eager to take advice from popular trends and have decided you are no longer worth the effort.