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As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

  • Written by Jeanette Tran, Associate Professor of English, Drake University
imageLosing a connection to your family, intentionally or not, is tragic.catscandotcom/E+ via Getty Images

Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first?

These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite the recognition that familial relations are oftentimes hard, if not downright dysfunctional.

But over the past few...

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