# Therapists link rising family estrangement to mental health awareness and social media

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/parents-fear-losing-their-kids-to-the-no-contact-craze-sweeping-america-i-was-told-to-cut-all-ties/
- Published: 2026-10-24T20:18:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:37:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15993953/parents-fear-no-contact-children-america.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Cricket, Sport, World

## Key points

- Therapists report more young adults going no contact with parents.
- Social media can flatten a complex family decision.
- Estrangement may bring relief, grief and lasting separation.

## Summary

Therapists say more millennials and Gen Z adults are cutting contact with their parents, a choice they link partly to greater attention to mental health and boundaries, as well as social media’s simplified advice. They stress that estrangement can help people respond to harmful family patterns, but is a significant decision that may bring both relief and grief.

Family estrangement coach Kreed Revere says her two adult daughters stopped responding to her and blocked her on social media in January 2016; she describes the experience as devastating. Revere has also been estranged from her own mother, and says most parents she coaches do not reconcile with their children. Elise Maisonneuve, 43, cut contact with her mother three years ago after discovering she had lied about being sober; the article also recounts another woman’s account but ends before giving further details.

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