This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc.

Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. I think we began to notice it in earnest through the long ordeal, social and political ordeal that was COVID here in the United States,

usually had to do something with vaccines or masks or opinions about the pandemic.

But adult children began cutting off their parents, cutting off contact with their parents.

And then fueled by identity politics, it has exploded.

There are people who are willing to simply break family ties to maintain a political position

or to not have to listen to someone else's.

Greetings, and welcome to issues,ues etc. back on this Monday afternoon

live with you on this January the 5th. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. Noel

Merring. We'll join us to talk about family estrangement and identity politics. We'll spend some time

with you our listeners via email, talk back at Issue ZTC.org on the issues et cetera, comment line 618223-83-8382.

Then we'll discuss the epiphany season with Dr. Ken Sherb, Evangelism Executive for the Central Illinois District of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate.

Noel Maring is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, author of the book, Awake, Not Woke,

and a recent column for the Federalist title, Cutting Off Your Parents is Identity Politics,

Not Boundaries. Noelle, welcome back.

Thank you for having me.

Tell us about this explosion of adult children cutting off contact with their parents.

Sure. Well, there's always been family estrangement throughout

history, but traditionally has been something that was considered very rare, painful, often

private, and done as the absolute last recourse. And it's really exploded into the mainstream

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