My Daughter Ditched Our Family

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Looking back, Fred doesn't know what he could have done differently to prevent his daughter from cutting off her parents and siblings. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Fred, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Good afternoon, Dr. Laurel.
0:15.8	Hi.
0:16.6	What's happening?
0:17.7	Hi.
0:19.0	Well, I've got a 28-year-old daughter, my oldest of three children, and she's cut us off.
0:24.6	Myself, my wife, and her brother and sister for about nine months now.
0:30.7	And I'm just totally distraught about it.
0:33.6	I pray every night that it ends.
0:35.9	Fred, what's her problem?
0:39.9	If she's totally left the family situation, then I would imagine there were family troubles with her 20 years ago.
0:53.0	Everybody has, she's always been a little bit more one of the difficult of the three children
0:58.8	as I just said there were troubles 20 years ago you have to understand that if you have even one kid
1:08.4	some percentage of your children are going to have problems, whether
1:12.7	it's medical or mental. That's just life. So has anybody diagnosed her or given clarification
1:21.0	as to what her psychological problem was? No, no, they have not.
1:28.4	No teachers.
1:29.4	She never saw a counselor, a school counselor.
1:33.3	It was never any investigation as to her feelings, her behaviors.
1:38.4	See, this had a long beginning.
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