According to one distraught mother who calls herself Broken Hearted, outreach people cause this intentionally. In a comment to another person, she wrote:
If you are able to remove your blinders long enough to see through the haze of your new life, you may one day realize that a well funded, highly organized, well oiled kiruv machine did this TO you. They followed a tried and true method of recruiting and indoctrination. Objectors, like your parents, are systematically removed from BT's lives. Nothing special here, it's how they operate. If you ever decide to leave, I hope your family is there for you.
In fairness, let us note that several baalei teshuvah responded to this comment with accounts of how they still are connected to their families. For example, a woman named Cynthia wrote, “I am writing from the perspective of someone who did maintain close family relationships, even when we became more religious.” Nevertheless, there are many cases of estrangement in what seemed to have been reasonably normal families.
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