Childhood Bereavement Research Paper

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“Childhood bereavement is one of society’s most chronically painful, yet rarely examined, and most underestimated phenomena,” explained Lynn Hughes, founder and chief advocate of Comfort Zone Camp. Between November 24 and December 7, 2009, Comfort Zone and Mathew Greenwald and associates conducted a survey of 1,006 adults, over the age of 25, to determine what percentage of them had suffered a significant loss before the age of 20. To their surprise, of the 1,006 people survey, 11% of them had lost at least one parent during their childhood. A loss of such caliber is one a child should never have to face, but it happens more often than we think. The effects of such a loss varies from child to child. For some, it could have a positive outcome.

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