Researchers writing in 2015 found that about 11 percent of mothers ages sixty-five to seventy-five with at least two grown children were totally estranged from at least one of them.[7] They found that a values breach was at the root of many of these estrangements, while a violation of behavioral norms (for instance, not practicing their faith) usually was not. (Take a moment and think about what this says: your family generally cares less about how you live and more about what you say about what they believe.)
