Did you really do anything you think makes you a bad parent?

I have a semi-estranged son who is 25. We never had a single conflict and had much love until he went to college. Now there’s been a rift since he married his college gf and our family has been so pushed away we didn’t attend their wedding.

We were told we were bad parents during this rift as though to justify their horrendous treatment. The few examples given were not bad parenting examples at all. It was good parenting. That is all he had to even say as cannon fodder, that’s how good we were!

In addition to whatever happened within your family, and the parental alienation that has probably occurred, I feel (and this is what I think is the culprit in my son’s case) there is an individuation, estrangement, anti-parental/tradition movement going on with the youth.

Do you think your daughter is going through some of this too?