It was freezing in Worcester, Massachusetts, when Beth Pensky pulled her SUV into the dark parking lot of her daughter’s apartment complex after a marathon 24-hour drive.
She’d loaded her German shepherd and Yorkie in the vehicle and closed the gym she ran in Florida for the week, embarking on what she saw as a do-or-die mission to see her adult children again, she told The Epoch Times.
After they’d gone off to college, she saw a startling change in her son’s and daughter’s values. They’d distanced themselves from her. And she feared the estrangement was more profound than the typical tension between parents and their children growing into adulthood….