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Are All Broken Families Fixable?

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Rod Dreher
Oct 15, 2025
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Detail from Rembrandt’s ‘Return Of The Prodigal Son’

Katie Roiphe writes about her husband’s estrangement from his difficult father. Excerpt:

My husband hasn’t spoken to his father for 14 years. I have never met him. He didn’t come to our wedding or acknowledge it. I have only heard stories about an icy, elegant, daunting father whose approval my husband …

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