Shift in family values

It indeed has shifted and much damage done ; but it’s shifting again to strong values centered around the children !

“Why would divorce increase the risk? In my clinical work I have seen how divorce can create a radical realignment of long-held bonds of loyalty, gratitude, and obligation in a family. It can tempt one parent to poison the child against the other. It can cause children to reexamine their lives prior to divorce and shift their perspective so they now support one parent and oppose the other. It can bring in new people—stepparents or stepsiblings—to compete with the child for emotional or material resources. Divorce—as well as the separation of parents who never married—can alter the gravitational trajectories of a family so that, over time, members spin further and further out of one another’s reach. And when they do, they might not feel compelled to return,” writes Joshua Coleman.

www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/why-parents-and-kids-get-estranged/617612/