Help! I'm Quarantining With My Parents!

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 28, 2020

With many grown children staying at their parents’ house to quarantine, or help out, old issues of independence, privacy and housekeeping resurface. Joshua Coleman, Senior Fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families and  author of many books on family relationships including the forthcoming Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict, tackles some of your 'quarantining with my parents' questions, and talks about how to keep boundaries and stay sane.

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