And the estrangement occurred no matter how old the child was when the father and the mother separated.

When David Dinkins was 6 years old, his father and mother separated.

The two had a son in 1992, after which Stringer and the boy's father separated.

She was living alone under her maiden name, she and my father having separated thirty years earlier.

Rachel's mother and father separated when she was four.

My mother and father separated when I was 6 years old.

Her father and mother separated when she was young.

Francis' strict Italian father would separate the couple whenever possible.

We are told that the father and mother recently separated, but Mom makes no appearance and the nature of the parents' conflict isn't explained.

But her father separated them at birth, then killed the other twin.