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fromThe Atlantic
5 days agoThe Internet Novel Is Growing Up
Internet-driven isolation and online radicalization intensify familial fractures, transforming traditional unhappy-family narratives into a distinctly digital crisis.
As the mother of a son who has cut himself off from his parents (blocking us on social media and not responding to letters), I can categorically state that the pain is year-round. Like the Beckhams, our situation appears to have started at the time of a marriage, followed by a gradual realisation that for unknown reasons we were no longer acceptable as parents or in-laws, then an abrupt (and inexplicable to us) termination of all contact.