Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Did you know that more than 67 million Americans are estranged from at least one member of their family?

And 16% of all those report that it's their parent that they're estranged from.

Well, Dr. Kathy Cook, founder and CEO of

Celebrate Kids, has a brand new book that addresses this trend of kids canceling their parents.

It's called resolve conflict and find peace and hope with adult children. Here's Kathy Cook.

I can imagine more than those statistics, you know someone who's gone no contact with a parent or family member.

It's one of the most common and hardest conversations I have with people when I speak around the country.

I work with a number of Christian organizations that specialize in supporting people.

And many of the people I've spoken to who run counseling hotlines in these ministries

say the majority of their counseling involves parents and adult children.

This is such a hard reality for the church.

There's so much hurt in our congregations.

Have you felt it?

Seen it?

Experienced it?

Many adult children say they go no contact for their emotional health.

And a lot of them find support and encouragement to avoid their parents from their spouses friends counselors and social

networks they're often told they're brave for cutting off their parents it's heartbreaking

this causes parents to be confused and lonely, trying to process grief and shame.

I'm sad for them, and I'm also sad for their adult children, because I believe they'll

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