The Sharing Place was recently featured in Mind Set News. Titled ‘Bereavement Deserts’: Amid a Rise in Parental Deaths, Grief in Children Is Often Overlooked, the article highlights the struggle of children’s grief due to losing a parent.
The death of a parent is one of the most traumatic of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that can derail emotional development and lead to long-term problems, including depression, behavioral issues, or academic problems in school. Child grief support and “resilient parenting” strategies can help protect against those bad outcomes – as evidenced in studies that followed children for as long as 15 years after the sudden loss of a parent.
This article is the second part of Forgotten Children, a series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and efforts to address it. Read the full story here.
https://mindsitenews.org/2025/01/23/grief-in-children-soaring/