Barbara Fortune last saw her youngest grandchild shortly after he was born. Today, she says, she wouldn’t even know the boy if she saw him on the street.
“I have no idea what he or his older brother even look like now,” she says. Fortune has been estranged from her son, the boys’ father, for eight years. As a result, she also lost contact with her two grandsons. Like so many parents of estranged adult children, she has spent countless hours trying to understand what went wrong.
“David was my youngest,” Fortune says. “When I look back on home movies, whenever I enter the picture, he’s always beside me. Even when he grew up and married, we were so close. It’s hard to believe he’d do this to me.”