While a balance between parental warmth, strictness, and expectations all play a role in your adult children’s well-being, ...

Tensions in relationships between parents and their adult children are nothing short of common. Whether they’re caused by the natural kind of disconnection that happens when children leave home or by ...

To help you better communicate, especially when tensions are high, psychologists share seven phrases parents say during ...

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, ...

The Biggest Obstacle To Repairing a Parent and Adult-Child Relationship, Psychologist Says originally appeared on Parade. Preparing for a baby, having a newborn and then raising a child are big ...

Relationships between parents and their grown kids can be incredibly meaningful when worked on intentionally. But too often, old habits of speaking and interacting stand in the way of parents and ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Navigating the parent-adult child relationship can be ...

Even if their intentions aren't malicious, parents who emotionally exhaust their adult kids usually say these 11 phrases all the time.

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 ...

Research from recent decades shows that versions of Kara’s experience are common for less favored siblings. In childhood, ...

Aging can bring changes to people's bodies, minds and relationships — changes that many are often not prepared for. Erlene Rosowsky, a clinical psychologist who specializes in aging, says many people ...

“What I have found over the years is that the greatest obstacle is in getting parents—from different generations, with different childhoods and traumas—to be open, willing and flexible enough to ...