Restoring Family Connections: Helping Targeted Parents and Adult Alienated Children Work through Conflict, Improve Communication, and Enhance RelationshipsBroken relationships between adult children and their parents is a widespread phenomenon. While the parent child attachment relationship is of critical importance for the child in the early years of life, the parent child relationship continues to be a source of great importance over the course of the individual's life span for both the child and the parent. For adults and adult children who are estranged alienated from each other, the pain and