Biological and non-biological parents were included in measures of parental death, divorce or other parental loss.
5, 8, 11, 12, 31 Between one in seven and one in four minor and YA children with parents with a history of cancer experience parental death, whereas parental death is uncommon in the general population.
One in four YAs with a parent once diagnosed with cancer had experienced parental death from cancer, whereas parental death is experienced by only one in 80 in the general population (Table 4).
One in seven minors with a parent once diagnosed with cancer had experienced parental death from cancer, whereas parental death is uncommon in the general population, being experienced by only about one in 300 400 (Table 2).
Dependent children under the age of 18 are particularly vulnerable to the stress of parental death from cancer or of having a parent diagnosed and treated for the disease.
Traditionally, research on parent child separation has focused on the negative consequences that children may experience when separated from their parents because of extraordinary situations such as union dissolution or parental death (Amato & Cheadle, 2005; Corak, 2001).
War violence, parental death and militarism.
Parental death, alien battles and annihilated worlds.
But stories such as these, presupposing parental death or dereliction, tend to be particularly challenging reads.
But the issue of religious conversion – another central theme of the book – is linked to parental death and loss.
There's nothing quite like parental death swiftly followed by motherhood to really make you examine how you were brought up.
