Dr. Joshua Coleman
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first heard May 2026
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Good Life Project · Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say. · 9 Jul 2026
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Yeah, I mean, we have to assume there's always been estrangements, but probably never at the numbers that we're currently seeing.
You know, one study said that something like 26% of dads are estranged from a child and between 10 to 15% are estranged from a mother.
And that's probably historically new, even though we've only recently begun to track it.
And I think it's in part because of the way that there's been this huge cultural shift away from the sort of structure that families had for really millennia.
Honor thy mother and thy father.
Families forever respect thy elders, which is very similar to what most cultures in the world still have.
And it's shifted much more into this kind of culture.
notion that family is just one more group of people that can either interfere with your mental health or promote it or your identity or your happiness.
And when that becomes the case, not only can you cut out a family member, but you should cut out a family member.
So there's a bunch of other contributing factors that amplify that.
But I think that's the most important thing is this huge cultural shift.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, if we think about the pathways to estrangement, for example, people often think, well, people only cut off a parent, for example, if there's been abuse.
And that is certainly a pathway to estrangement, verbal abuse or physical abuse.
But also today, people get estranged over political differences.
You know, a survey I did with the Harris Bowl, we found a significant people became estranged just from the last election.
That's historically new, right?
I mean, 20 years ago, if your kid was going to marry somebody from the opposite party, you'd say, well, as long as they love each other, that's the most important thing.
Now it's like people from the opposite party are considered the enemy, and the idea of treating them even violently is considered somehow legitimate.
the role of therapy.
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