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The many faces of parental estrangement

by Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, www.drjoshuacoleman.com

Despite the common assumption that parental estrangement only occurs in those cases where there was severe child maltreatment, plenty of parents have little to no contact with their adult children due to reasons unrelated to poor parenting.

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