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childhoodParental Loss in Childhood Its Effect in Adult Life
While parental loss in childhood has intrigued psychiatrists for most of this century, it has only recently been the subject of acceptable empiric research. Early…
Parental death during childhood and adult depression
Parental death during childhood is widely viewed as an event so traumatic that it produces not only immediate grief and despondency but also a predisposition to…
Long-Term Experiencing of Parental Death During Childhood
This qualitative study examined the long-term experience of childhood parental death by exploring how adults (a) retrospectively conceptualize their experiences…
Mortality after Parental Death in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Three Nordic Countries
Background Bereavement by spousal death and child death in adulthood has been shown to lead to an increased risk of mortality. Maternal death in infancy or parental…
Parental death in childhood and risk of adult depressive disorders
The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent;…
Early Parental Loss and Development of Adult Psychopathology
We assessed the effect of parental loss during childhood on the development of psychopathology in 90 adults. The subjects with a history of adult psychopathology…
The impact of parental death on the timing of first marriage: Evolutionary versus social explanations
BACKGROUND This article examines the impact of parental death in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood on male and female age at marriage in the Netherlands in…
A Child's Right to Participation: Photovoice as Methodology for Documenting the Experiences of Children Living in Kenyan Orphanages
Through ethnographic research, including participatory photography or “photovoice,” this research project explored the changing landscape of childhood faced by…
Nutritional status among orphans and vulnerable children aged 6 to 59 months in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study
Background: Childhood undernutrition is a global problem contributing to more than a third of under-five mortality. Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) fare worse…