Learn how to stop enabling your highly dependent adult child and begin reclaiming your own well-being with compassionate, ...

Parents of adults know the drill: they want to respect boundaries, but some comments from their grown kids sting in a way ...

Blaming yourself — or your child — for the cracks in your relationship isn’t going to make things better between the two of ...

If your adult child is unmotivated, stuck, or disengaged, it may not be laziness at at. Many parents are responding to the ...

While big, outspoken emotions like anger can contribute to a long-term sense of tension and hostility in a parent-child relationship, many subtle resentments also sabotage a family's dynamic. From ...

There are a number of behaviors, habits, and issues that spark tension in family dynamics, especially between adult children and their parents later in life, according to a study from the Psychology & ...

This isn't about abandoning your adult kids. Far from it. It's about fostering their independence, allowing them to learn from their own experiences (even the mistakes), and ultimately strengthening ...

Due to financial pressures and personal events, 46% of parents say their adult children have moved back home. Here’s how to navigate the potential ‘boomerang burden.’ It’s a financially challenging ...

You made it through the terrible twos, the "threenager" phase and parented a teenager. Whew. You may have thought that your relationship with your child might get easier as they entered adulthood.

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 ...