According to a study in November 2010 conducted by 20th Century Fox to mark the new season of the comedy Family Guy, nearly 20 million people in Britain are not speaking to members of their family because of bitter family arguments. Most of these people said that they held their mothers responsible and eight out of ten said that it was female family members who had started the conflict. Fathers were named as the next most likely member to fall out with, followed by sisters.
One third of all the people polled called their families ‘dysfunctional’ and one in ten said they had refused to speak to someone in the family for more than 20 years. One ...
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