Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Coleman is a psychologist and senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families. He is the author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Joshua Coleman discuss why there is a growing number of estrangements between parents and their adult children, how political identification has increasingly become a source of family conflict, and the best strategies for how estranged parents and adult children can heal their relationships. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Buy our electric car, they say.
0:03.0	A thousand mile range, they say.
0:05.4	The seats give massages, they say.
0:07.8	How much?
0:08.8	You say?
0:09.8	Ah, well, they say.
0:11.2	But at 14 995, the-winning Datcha Spring 100% electric is the UK's most affordable new electric car.
0:18.0	So what do you say?
0:20.0	Visit a Datcha retailer to find out more.
0:28.0	Based on manufacturer's recommended retail prices of March 3rd for verification, visit dacha.co. UK slash game changer.
0:45.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Hi, my name is Francisco Toto.
0:48.0	I'm the director of content for the group of 50.
0:51.0	I just wrote an article called Waiting for the Generals in Persuasion
0:56.0	about the Brazilian election that's pitting Lula, the old left-wing former president,
1:00.8	with Jayar Bolsonaro, the incumbent foreign... former president who has more or less promised to disregard the
1:03.0	incumbent far-right very Trumpy president who has more or less
1:07.9	promised to disregard the election result unless he wins.
1:12.0	This is an incredibly destabilizing thing in a country
1:15.1	like Brazil that has pretty recent memory of generals running the country and
1:20.8	where people remember that and not everyone hates it. the country is incredibly polarized now and heading into a second round election on October 30th
1:31.5	which well it's not actually hard to forecast now. We know what's going to happen.
1:35.2	Lula is almost surely going to win.
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