Arthur Brooks: Get Off Your Parents’ Phone Plan

Arthur Brooks: Get Off Your Parents’ Phone Plan

In Monday’s column I wrote about the very public schism in the Beckham family, between the parents (David and Victoria) and their son Brooklyn, who announced on social media last week that he was no longer speaking to them. I explained that this situation is surprisingly common—that 11 percent of moms over 65 are not speaking to at least one of their kids, as well as 26 percent of dads. Yet, like a death, estrangement feels uniquely sad to every…