No Contact, when adult children estrange

TherapyTok is awash with people celebrating going “no contact” with their families. Facebook support groups host thousands of parents sharing their stories of abandonment: parents who seem to have no clue what they’ve done wrong, and adult children who say, isn’t it obvious?

On The Weekend Intelligence our editor, Gemma Newby explores the phenomenon of parental estrangement to ask whether this is another dimension of the culture war or if something more fundamental is at work.