Young adults are cutting off their parents in increasing numbers, and some experts are pointing the finger at the therapists — who traditional wisdom suggests should be healing family rifts rather than reinforcing the divides.
Citing varying degrees of “trauma,” “toxicity,” and “abuse,” people in their 20s and 30s are cutting ties with the family members they’ve accused of participating in those behaviors — often their own parents — and claiming that their mental health would be at risk if they didn’t do so.
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