There is a pandemic in the Western world, especially, but not only in America, that few are talking about, let alone addressing.

This pandemic doesn't actually kill people, but it does

ruin lives, crush families, and cause debilitating pain, far more than most cases of

COVID-19.

What pandemic am I talking about?

The pandemic of people who do not speak to one or both of their parents.

Why have these people decided to hurt their parents in one of the worst ways possible

to the extent of not even allowing their parents contact with their grandchildren?

There are three primary parents contact with their grandchildren?

There are three primary reasons.

The first is the rise of the therapeutic mentality.

Prior to the explosion of psychotherapy, people were governed by shoulds,

but beginning in the 1960s, the therapeutic model replaced the moral model

as the guide to one's behavior. A popular phrase at the time was

there are no shoulds. I'll use a family story to illustrate this point. Despite the

fact that his mother was a very difficult woman, my father

called her every night, and every night she would yell at him.

As a child, I heard this, because instead of holding the phone to his ear my father would

periodically place the phone on the kitchen table. Had my father been born a

generation later and told a therapist how much he dreaded calling his mother,

the therapist would likely have led my father to believe there was no reason he should talk to her.

The therapist would have declared my grandmother toxic and given my father

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