Research by Karl Pillemer, a family sociologist and professor of human development at Cornell University, indicates that 1 in 4 American adults have become estranged from their families.
What makes these situations even more disheartening is that recent studies reveal that over half the people in these situations feel like there is no chance they could ever have a functional relationship again in the future.
If we truly understand this from a physical sense, then it should be a very fearful thing to find that we might, ourselves, be estranged from God in a spiritual sense because of our sin.