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While We're Waiting
Retreats for Bereaved Parents
The While We’re Waiting ministry offers free Biblically based retreats, where bereaved parents form bonds and make connections with other moms and dads who truly understand the experience of child loss.
Our Hearts Are Home
Conferences, Groups, Books +
Our Hearts Are Home is a faith-based non-profit organization that ministers to grieving families, provides encouragement to those who are suffering and educates and equips individuals to reach out to those in need.
Christian Suicide Loss
Blog for Suicide Loss
Melissa Shaffer of Surviving Child Loss has blogged every year since she lost her son Tristan to suicide in 2020. She offers perspective, hope, and encouragement on this hard and lonely journey.
Sparrow Falls
Suffering in the Christian Life
The teaching ministry of Todd Shaffer for people carrying the weight of things they never asked for. Through podcasts and articles, we lean into the blistering cracks of this broken world to see what God says about the life of affliction and suffering.
The Grief Mentor
Coaching
Teaching grieving moms how to manage their grief and discover a path that leads to living with hope after child loss.
The death of a child is one of the greatest and most enduring stresses a person can experience.
The Institute of Medicine 1
Bereaved parents are more likely to suffer from depression, relational discord, health problems, substance abuse, social struggles, financial challenges, lack of purpose and premature death.
References 3
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Citations
1. Christ, G., Bonanno, G., Malkinson, R. & Rubin, S. (2003). When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families. Institute of Medicine, p.553-579.
2. Rogers, C., Floyd, F., Mailick Seltzer, M., Greenberg, J., & Hong, J. (April 2008). Long-Term Effects of the Death of a Child on Parents’ Adjustment in Midlife. Journal of Family Psychology, p. 203-211.
3. The following references:
Li, J., Laursen, T., Precht, D., Olsen, J., & Mortensen, P. (24 March, 2005). Hospitalization for Mental Illness among Parents after the Death of a Child. New England Journal of Medicine, p. 1190-1196.
Li, J., Hansen, D., Mortensen, P. B., & Olsen, J. (2002). Myocardial Infarction in Parents Who Lost a Child: a nationwide prospective cohort study in Denmark. Circulation, p. 1634-1639.
Li, J., Johansen, C., Hansen, D., & Olsen, J. (15 November, 2002). Cancer Incidence in Parents who Lost a Child: a nationwide study in Denmark. Cancer, p. 2237-2242.
Rostila, M., Saarela, J., & Kawachi, I. (2011). Mortality in Parents Following the Death of a Child: A Nationwide Follow-up Study from Sweden. Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, p. 927-933.
Umberson, D. (2017). Black Deaths Matter: Race, Relationship Loss, and Effects on Survivors. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 8Shear, K. (8 January, 2015). Complicated Grief. The New England Journal of Medicine, p. 153-160.
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