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Your family is not named Lohan or Spelling, and your feuds aren’t plastered across People or Us magazines.

But they are still painful, hurtful and destructive — emotionally and physically — to the parties involved as well as to other family members.

Call it collateral damage.

Nieces and nephews don’t show up at family gatherings because adult siblings are fighting. Your aunt in California is not talking to your brother’s nephew who lives in New York. Your two uncles from Ohio haven’t talked since before you were born, so you’ve never met your cousins. And Grandma? She rarely sees some of her grandkids.

Sadly, those on the feud’s front lines often ignore the impact their fight has on others.

via Family feuds cause collateral damage – Pulse | ColumbiaTribune.com.