Keynote: Estrangement

Event Overview

Family estrangement affects more than 65 million Americans, often with devastating consequences. What makes family estrangement so painful? Why do these rifts arise in the first place, and how can we overcome them?

This event provides new information about how family rifts occur and how to resolve them, based on Karl Pillemer’s groundbreaking Cornell Estrangement and Reconciliation Project — including the first national survey on estrangement. The presentation combines science-based repair tools with the personal experiences of over 100 people who have mended family rifts. The result is a unique guide to healing fractured families. Dr. Pillemer assures people who are estranged, as well as those who care about them, that they are not alone and that building a bridge over a family rift is possible.

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Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them

What You'll Learn

The prevalence of family estrangement in the United States
The main causes of family estrangement
The effects of estrangement on individuals and families
Strategies used by people who successfully reconcile

Speaker

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Karl Pillemer

Hazel Reed Professor of Human Development

Cornell College of Human Ecology

Weill Cornell Medicine

Hazel Reed Professor of Human Development, Cornell University College of Human Ecology, and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Karl A. Pillemer, Ph.D., is the Hazel Reed Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and a Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. An internationally renowned family sociologist and gerontologist, Dr. Pillemer’s research examines how individuals and their families develop and change throughout their lives. Over the past ten years, he has been conducting a program of research on the topic of family estrangement and reconciliation, which led to his book “Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them” (Avery, 2020). The author of five other books and over 200 scientific publications, Dr. Pillemer speaks throughout the world on family issues.

Dr. Pillemer also created the Cornell Legacy Project, which is dedicated to finding out what older people know about life that the rest of us don’t. This project led to two books: “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans” and “30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage.”

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