Elder Abuse
Estranged Adult Children often seem mystified by their parents' apparent unwillingness to "do the work"—it's about power and the right not to be changed.
Elder Abuse
A corollary to Part 21. Can We Trust Them As We Age?
Elder Abuse
A new era of uncertainty for aging parents: Loss of trust, aging, health and end-of-life concerns.
Elder Abuse
The tenets and methods of Estrangement Ideology create a lose-lose scenario for parents.
Elder Abuse
Modern Estrangement Ideology vs estrangement in past generations: What’s changed?
Elder Abuse
Estranged adult children are aware of the emotion pain they are causing and are not as emotionally detached as they claim.
Elder Abuse
The consequence of their own choices: The lasting emotional impacts of estrangement on those practicing it.
Elder Abuse
Real vs lesser harms in estrangement: Can we differentiate justifiable, and ideological or socially performed estrangement?
Elder Abuse
The role of academic "experts" and media propagandists in shaping anti-parent narratives justifying estrangement.
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A case study in how parents are idealised in therapeutic language and discarded on failing to meet these unspecified one-sided expectations.
Elder Abuse
Looking too deeply into the mirror: Estrangement Ideology as a form of narcissism.
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Labelling Estrangement: How the Estranged Adult Child identity is formed and maintained through self-labelling and social reinforcement.