We are desperate to see our estranged son – and he doesn’t want to know

DEAR DEIDRE: WE desperately want to see our estranged son but he refuses to answer our emails and calls.

All we want is for him to acknowledge us as his parents.

I am 62 and my wife is 60. We live in South Africa but our son, who is now 32, has been brought up by my wife’s cousin since the age of three when she moved with him to England.

We were struggling with poverty back then, while my wife’s cousin married an Englishman who was rich compared to us.

When...