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Mid-life loss of parents
— the transition for adult child to orphan | | Author(s) | Helen Marshall |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 29, no 4, Fall 2004 |
| Pages | pp 351-367 |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; Bereavement ; Death ; Parents. |
| Annotation | Few studies have explored the transition faced by midlife adults on the death of a parent, and even fewer, the differences between first and second parent loss. This paper draws on in-depth interview data from a small sample conducted as part of a small-scale research project. A phenomenon of the two-staged life transition period was unexpectedly observed which suggests adult children may grieve for their first parent's death in a filtered way through their concern for the grief of the remaining parent, and then on the death of the second parent, grieve wholly for both parents. Previous research does not distinguish the social complexities of grief between first and second loss, or consider how this temporally spaced event is a two-phased life transition from role as a son/daughter to a parentless "orphan". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050804001 A |
| Classmark | SE: DW: CW: SR |
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