
Discover why 65 million Americans suffer silently through family estrangements. Karl Pillemer's groundbreaking research reveals the hidden epidemic of fractured families and offers revolutionary reconciliation strategies that prioritize healing over blame. "Better than any estrangement book this year," raves top reviewer Elyse Walters.
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Christopher Robin Milne lived every child's fantasy-his adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh enchanted millions. Yet behind the storybook magic lay a devastating truth: he spent decades estranged from his father, A.A. Milne, convinced his parent had "stolen his childhood" for profit and fame. He didn't speak to his mother for the last ten years of her life. While celebrity family rifts occasionally surface in tabloids, millions experience similar fractures in complete silence. What makes family estrangement uniquely painful is the profound isolation-sufferers genuinely believe they're the only ones whose family has shattered beyond repair. Karl Pillemer's Cornell Family Reconciliation Project reveals a stunning reality: approximately 67 million Americans are currently estranged from family members. That's roughly one in four people. Yet most suffer alone, convinced something is fundamentally wrong with them. The numbers tell a sobering story: 10 percent are cut off from parents or children, 8 percent from siblings, and 9 percent from extended family. Most of these rifts last years, not months-half extend beyond four years. Perhaps most striking, estrangement respects no boundaries of race, education, geography, or income. It's a genuinely democratic form of suffering.
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