After the death of a child : living with loss through the years
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After the death of a child : living with loss through the years
(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
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After the death of a child
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Originally published: New York : Free Press , 1996
Bibliography: p. 265-273
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Description
After a child dies, the parent's world changes entirely. Years later, this new world has changed the parents. The exact nature of this change-the long-term effects of the death-illuminates the nature of the bond between parents and children. Ann Finkbeiner lost her son in a train accident when he was 18. Several years later, she noticed she was feeling better and wondered whether this feeling was what was meant by "recovery." As a science writer, she read the psychological, sociological, and psychiatric research into parental bereavement. And as a bereaved parent, she asked hard questions of thirty parents whose child had died at least five years before, of all causes and at all ages. In this book, Finkbeiner combines the research and the parents' answers into a description of the parents' new lives. The parents talk about their changed marriages and their changed relationships with their other children, with their friends and relatives. They talk about their attempts to make sense of the death and about their drastically changed priorities.
And most important, they talk about how they still love their children, how the child seems to see through their eyes and live through their actions. They move on through their grief, they get on with their lives, but they never let go of their children. Their wisdom is here presented to any in need of it.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. At First
Chapter 2. Marge Ford's Marriage
Chapter 3. Fathers and Mothers, Husbands and Wives: Changes in the Marriage
Chapter 4. Brandt Jones's Family
Chapter 5. Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters: Changes in the Relationship with Other Children
Chapter 6. Leight Johnson and His Fellow Man
Chapter 7. Janet Wright's Bad Friends
Chapter 8. Changes Toward Other People
Chapter 9. Chris Reed
Chapter 10. On Guilt
Chapter 11. Delores Shoda and the Uncertainty of Life
Chapter 12. Job's Children: Changes Toward God
Chapter 13. Diana Moores' World
Chapter 14. The Zero Point: Changes in Perspective
Chapter 15. Anne Perkins' Priorities
Chapter 16. Surface Ditties and Carpe Diem: Changes in Priorities
Chapter 17. Walter Levin
Chapter 18. The Nature of the Bond
Chapter 19. One Person Now: The Continuining Trajectory
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