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Before Their Time: Adult Children's Experiences of Parental Suicide

Resource Type

Book - Parent/Child

Description

"Before Their Time is the first work to present adult children survivors' (defined as eighteen or above at the time of the parent's death) accounts of their loss, grief, and resolution following a parent's suicide. In one section, the book offers the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of mothers; in another, the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of fathers. In a third section, four siblings reflect on the shared loss of their mother. Each of these survivors faces the common difficulties associated with losing a loved one by suicide. They also experience difficulties specific to their status as both adult and child. Topics such as the impact of the parent's suicide on adult children's personal and professional choices, marriages and parenting, sibling and surviving parent relationships are explored with sensitivity and insight. Various coping skills, including humor, are described.' -From the Publisher

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

1566396557

Authors

Mary Stimming , Maureen Stimming

Publication

1999 Temple Univ Press

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