{"id":78500,"date":"2026-08-22T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78500"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:04:58","slug":"parental-estrangement-is-on-the-rise-in-asia-but-why-do-adult-children-go-no-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78500","title":{"rendered":"Parental estrangement is on the rise in Asia. But why do adult children go \u2018no contact\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/08\/21\/307d1694-4e0e-4c6d-9e8e-a8ed4e03937c_d2df61af.jpg?itok=4i7c1WjY&amp;v=1787301207\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">My friend Sunita* did not see it coming. Her messages went ignored, and calls were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The truth hit when her daughter blocked her completely.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sunita could not fathom why: she had always encouraged open communication with her children. The child who had once loved and admired her now called her \u201ctoxic\u201d and severed ties.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Sunita slipped into depression, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">unable to sleep<\/span> or do household chores, haunted by one question: \u201cWhat did I do wrong?\u201d She missed her daughter. Fond memories of the past intruded on the present. Her attempts at reconciliation resulted in humiliation.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">How does one survive when the child you loved for 25 years dumps you with no explanation?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sunita joins a growing list of estranged parents whose adult children go \u201cno contact\u201d to protect their own mental health.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While once viewed as a Western phenomenon tied to individualistic \u201ctherapy culture\u201d, parental estrangement is quietly spreading across Asia \u2013 including Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3364659\/parental-estrangement-rise-asia-why-do-adult-children-go-no-contact?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Sunita* did not see it coming. Her messages went ignored, and calls were dismissed. The truth hit when her daughter blocked her completely&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[584,5024,3503,4298,28703,397,1569],"class_list":["post-78500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-adult","tag-asia","tag-children","tag-contact","tag-estrangement","tag-parental","tag-rise","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}