US: A crisis of childhood grief (Includes video)
Vox – November 24, 2021
International research prior to the Covid-19 era has shown that “kids who experience a parental death are more likely to suffer from depression or drop out of school,” said Rachel Kidman, a social epidemiologist who has studied bereaved children. “They also exhibit greater suicidality.” That’s in relatively normal times – kids who have lost parents to Covid have also had to mourn without a lot of the social supports they’re used to. “They didn’t have friends checking in on them. They didn’t have neighbors dropping by with food. They didn’t have proper funerals,” Kidman said. “I worry that the psychological impact on these kids is going to be even greater.”
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22774601/children-covid-parent-deaths-grief