I went no-contact with my father while he was dying of cancer. The less newsworthy part of the story is that I told him that I’d quit my job to move home to take care of him if he’d just go to therapy. Instead, he chose to tell me that he was still strong enough to throw me down the stairs. Bye Dad!

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Always reminds me of the "which beliefs?" goose meme. The people being "cut off" are almost always doing something insane.

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The other category of coverage is *extremely* implausible first-person accounts from estranged parents. According to this woman, her son cut her off after she was mildly rude to his fiance's family a single time. There's no way this is the entire story. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...

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Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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