E228: The ‘No Contact’ Epidemic That Is Tearing Families Apart w/Noelle Mering | Lila Rose Show

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A disturbing trend is sweeping Gen Z—and it’s making headlines in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Time Magazine, and NPR. It’s called No Contact: young people aren’t just disagreeing with their parents—they’re cutting them off entirely.

In an age where ideological conformity is demanded, even a hint of dissent can be grounds for exile. Radical acceptance is the new litmus test—and conservative parents are failing by default. Instead of sticking with the families who raised them, many are replacing them with “chosen family” that affirms every belief and lifestyle.

Author Noelle Mering is sounding the alarm in her upcoming book, exposing how authoritarian ideas are driving a wedge through families—and how parents can fight back with truth, boundaries and love.

Theology of Home website: https://theologyofhome.com/

Noelle's website: https://www.noellemering.com/

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0:31.2	young adults going no contact with their parents over ideology. It's a new rising phenomenon.
0:36.5	Being written about more and more often
0:37.9	all over tic-tok what i call tic-tok psychologists you chose to have me i did not choose to be born so you
0:44.5	owe me everything i don't owe you anything once you elevate the identity of woundedness you start
0:50.2	looking your history for a culprit for that and parents are kind of a natural place to put. What has been the most tragic story that has caught your eye? So I've been interviewing a ton of
0:58.8	families. And one story sticks out in my mind. This dear father and mother and their daughter, she had already
1:05.6	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Lila Rose show. Today I'm sitting down with my friend Noel
1:09.7	Maring, who is a founder
1:11.7	over at Theology of Home, and she's also a fellow at EPPC, the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
1:17.6	She is writing a new book and doing research on this very, I guess it's a dark trend, but
1:22.2	it's also very important to understand. It's very interesting, where family members are
1:26.7	increasingly freezing each other out,
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