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For the school aged child, like the younger child, grief crisis may interrupt age appropriate activities and force a child to address issues for which the child is not developmentally prepared. Children this age might believe that certain behavior will bring their loved ones back.
The death of a child signifies the loss of the future, of. hopes and dreams, of new strength, and of perfectionâ (Arnold and Gemma 1994, iv,9,39). Grieving parents say that their grief is a lifelong process, a long and painful process...âa process. in which [they] try to take and keep some meaning from the loss and life without the [child]â. (Arnold and Gemma 1983, 57). After a childâs death, parents embark on a long, sad journey that.