My friends, I want to talk about something impacting more families than you may think — and it's not really about politics, even though politics is usually the trigger.

A Fox News piece by Melissa Rudy caught my attention today. In it, she talks about the “5 reasons more Americans are cutting off their own parents,” according to a psychologist named Dr. Richard Blake.

First on his list? Political and value differences. Not abuse. Not addiction. Not even a serious crime. Blake's own research found people are more likely to cut off a family member over a differing opinion than over an actual violent crime. Let that sink in for a second.

This isn't some fringe thing either. A YouGov survey found 38% of American adults — nearly two in five — are currently estranged from at least one family member. This could be a sibling, a parent, a child, or a grandparent.

No one is immune from this disturbing trend. In fact, you may have watched this play out with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He and his parents went nearly twelve years without speaking, and it wasn't a mystery why — he's talked openly about differing values and feeling unsupported. But recently, he posted photos with his mom and dad, arms around each other, captioned "another bonding week." Thankfully, they found their way back together.

And I hope more American families can do the same.

Estranged family situations are incredibly sad, especially when the root cause of the fracture is political. It doesn't have to be that way.

I know some of you are living this right now — a kid who won't talk to you or a parent who thinks you're the enemy over who you voted for. I'm not going to pretend there's a magic fix. The truth is, if someone decides to cut you out of their lives, there's often nothing you can do about it.

But if there is an opening for reconciliation, my friends, take it with humility. Focus on healing the relationship, not justifying your opinions or winning the argument. Lead with listening. Don't try to box them into a corner — just let them know that no disagreement is bigger than your love for them. As much as it depends upon you, live at peace with them.

We're not going to win our families back by matching contempt with contempt any more than we're going to win this country back that way. Truth has a way of prevailing, over time, with patience. Don't give up on the people you love just because the culture told them they should walk away.

I’m sorry if you’re experiencing something like this. And I as I write these words, I pray for reconciliation.

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

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Where do a lot of these "value differences" in families actually start?

For a lot of young people, it's a lecture hall. Real education is supposed to help draw out what's already good and true. It should cultivate it. But far too often today, it does the exact opposite. Leftist educators try to indoctrinate young people raised with faith and traditional values that everything they were taught at home was naive, harmful, and a lie.

I lived a version of this myself decades ago — professors who couldn't hide their contempt for a conservative Christian kid, even an ever-so-well-reasoned one, my friends!

It's only gotten more intense since. Kids head off to school, sit through a few semesters of being told their parents' worldview is the problem, and come home unrecognizable — not because they found truth, but because they were misguided by morally bankrupt leftist lunatics hellbent on remaking their entire belief system.

That's exactly the kind of value-dissimilarity Dr. Blake's research points to as a leading driver of family estrangement. It's not accidental — a lot of the time, it's the intended outcome of a four-year investment. And sometimes, the damaging results come much quicker than that.

If you've got a kid in college, stay engaged. Ask what they're actually being taught, not just what grade they got. And if you're the one who came back from campus different, ask yourself honestly whether you found truth — or just absorbed someone else's contempt for the people, the values, and the faith that shaped you.

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