Oprah Wanted To Talk About Adult Kids Cutting Off Their Parents. What I Heard Made My Blood Run Cold.
January 19, 2026
I recently listened to an episode of The Oprah podcast that explored what it described as the “rising trend” of family estrangement, and included personal stories from adult children who had cut contact with their parents, from parents who had repaired their relationships with estranged children and from parents who had not. Oprah also invited a panel of three experts ― all therapists ― to…





