Parental Discard © ​​​​21st Century Erasure of Families | Why it is Not Estrangement

Stop calling it estrangement. Estrangement requires dysfunction. Parental Discard does not. This is the first behavioral, assessment-based framework that measures when an adult child cuts off an intact, non-abusive family. No therapist built it. No institution built it. No researcher built it. M.F. Shaw, MsPSY, built it. Your son cut you off. Your daughter blocked you. Your grandchildren were taken. No one could tell you why. Now there’s a name, a framework, and proof. The family was never broken. The lie was chosen. Media requests: parentaldiscard.com/contact-media/ © 2026 Parental Discard™