Why are so many young people going ‘no contact’ with their parents?

“Mum had been on thin ice for a while,” Joe tells me. The 29-year-old decided to go ‘no contact’ with his mother a little over a year ago, but, as he explains, the cracks had been there for some time. For starters, she was racist and homophobic – which Joe, who identifies as queer, could never quite come to terms with. “I would have an excuse for all of her faults. Her racism was her age; her being estranged from my brother meant she needed me…” he explains, adding that hehellip;

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