{"id":29020,"date":"2025-06-04T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29020"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:22:53","slug":"5-books-on-navigating-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29020","title":{"rendered":"5 Books on Navigating Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers share the titles they recommend most often.<\/p>\n

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When parents estranged from their children share what\u2019s going on, many imagine other people thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d said Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University.<\/p>\n

Though estrangement \u2014 or family cutoff \u2014 can feel isolating, it\u2019s actually fairly common. A 2022 YouGov poll<\/a> of Americans found that 29 percent of subjects were estranged from a parent, grandparent, sibling or child.<\/p>\n

People experiencing estrangement often crave tools to deal with the loss and assurance that they aren\u2019t alone \u2014 and a number of recent books may help make sense of what they\u2019re going through.<\/p>\n

We asked nine experts who research the topic for recommendations. Because the field is still growing, many of them endorsed the same books. And several experts interviewed for this article appear on this list because their work was highly recommended by colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The five titles below offer guidance on navigating family rifts, coping with pain and finding a path forward. But they won\u2019t necessarily help mend broken ties.<\/p>\n

As Kathleen Smith, a therapist and faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C., put it, \u201cthe goal is not to prevent estrangement or encourage it, but to help a person get their best thinking involved in the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Researchers share the titles they recommend most often.When parents estranged from their children share what\u2019s going on, many imagine other people thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d said Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University.Though estrangement \u2014 or family cutoff \u2014 can feel isolating, it\u2019s actually fairly common. A 2022 YouGov poll of Americans found that 29 percent of subjects were estranged from a parent, grandparent, sibling or child.People experiencing estrangement often crave tools to deal with the loss and assurance that they aren\u2019t alone \u2014 and a number of recent books may help make sense of what they\u2019re going through.We asked nine experts who research the topic for recommendations. Because the field is still growing, many of them endorsed the same books. And several experts interviewed for this article appear on this list because their work was highly recommended by colleagues.The five titles below offer guidance on navigating family rifts, coping with pain and finding a path forward. But they won\u2019t necessarily help mend broken ties.As Kathleen Smith, a therapist and faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C., put it, \u201cthe goal is not to prevent estrangement or encourage it, but to help a person get their best thinking involved in the decision.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29022,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29023,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions\/29023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}