If your adult child is unmotivated, stuck, or disengaged, it may not be laziness at at. Many parents are responding to the ...

Trauma bonding is often associated with romantic partners, but it is equally destructive when it develops between parent and ...

Even loving families feel subtle tensions as parents notice small quirks in their grown children. Lawmakers react to US seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker 'Taylor Swift is a Nazi' narrative boosted by ...

Emerging adult children and their parents can experience growing pains as they navigate a changing relationship. AJ_Watt/E+ via Getty Images As a professor of child development and family science, ...

It’s not easy to admit that you weren’t the greatest parent. Jane Fonda, 87, lamented her parenting in a recent NPR interview. She didn’t get into specifics, but she did tell “Fresh Air” host Tonya ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...

Adult-only areas are supposed to be just that. And it’s nothing against kids. It’s just that on a cruise ship, nothing is more annoying to passengers who want some peace and quiet than parents who ...

[My] bipolar adult daughter who may also have narcissistic personality disorder has announced that she’s cutting off all contact with her wonderful parents (as I would describe us) which means also ...

For the parents who reach out to me, watching their adult child stall out, drift, or pull away is heartbreaking. From the outside, it can understandably look like a lack of effort or direction. But ...

DEAR ABBY: Our 20-year-old son works full time and lives with us. He doesn’t do any household chores or pay us anything, not even his car insurance (which he agreed to pay). He then moved his ...