DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES-THE ESTRANGEMENT EPIDEMIC

This is the closest thing I could find to statistics. Look at the dynamics going on here. Some of the reasons are fairly perennial (like divorce) but about half of these are stress-related (like substance abuse) or directly finance-related. Apparently the children just want to take the money at the end. Don't do that. I wish someone would investigate the "generational" pattern though since it seems to me in most cases it's just one person who tries to initiate estrangement from their parents as a child then goes on to try to initiate it from their children as an adult which is technically a pattern spanning three generations but is still just one person causing all the estrangements.