Many successful people experience parental loss as a child Grieving the loss of a parent changes a person on the inside. Most people would agree that the worst age to lose a parent would be some time during childhood. Interestingly, science shows that people who have experienced parental loss as a child disproportionately make up a good population of successful people, including American writers, presidents of the United States, and British prime minister...
Fatherless sons face unique challenges in life When you research fatherless sons psychology, usually you find many stories about boys who had a father that was never in the picture, since day one. Others have had theirs dad taken from them from either desertion or death at some time during childhood. Strong statistical evidence shows that these young men are up against so many more challenges than boys with fathers. More likely to drop out of schoo...
Dealing with complicated grief: fatherless son psychology Unexpected. Sudden. Untimely. A number of circumstances may surround the death of a father that can make it difficult for the son to accept the tragedy. Many sons who have lost their fathers go on to experience complicated grief. In fact, no matter what age you are when it happens, it hurts to lose a parent. What is complicated grief? And why is complicated grief especially hard to deal with f...
Why it’s so hard for females to lose their mothers as young adults I was 19 years old when I became a motherless daughter. The loss of a mother is one of those events that changes you forever. I can remember every single detail about the day I heard that my mom died as if it was only yesterday. I was at college taking a short nap on a couch because I was one of the first to finish the test in my microbiology class (I have no clue why I took an 8am Satur...
How to support children grieving the loss of a parent Being the son or daughter of a parent that died is a traumatic experience. I can relate to the grief experienced by these children because my mother died when I was 19 years old. It happened before I got married. Before I had children. Truly, she died before my life even began. We had just started to get to know each other as adults and we were past my tumultuous early teenage years. Our bond was streng...
5 things to help motherless daughters make it through Mother’s Day When the second Sunday of May rolls around each year, not everyone is busy making plans to do something with or for their moms. Also, they may not also expect or even care if people do something for them on this special day because for this particular group of people this holiday is simply too terrible to bear. Who are we talking about? Motherless daughters. Grief may get easier with t...
Cremation, rather than being an end unto itself, is just the beginning of honoring your loved one. Once the cremains are delivered to you, you have the opportunity to use those ashes to honor the deceased in a variety of ways. Perhaps the most common choice is to place the loved one's ashes in a decorative container called an urn. Once in the urn, the cremains may be buried in a regular burial plot, interred in a columbarium, sit in a place of honor in ...
Looking for one-of-a-kind cremation jewelry? For centuries, people have been honoring the memory of their loved ones who have passed away with gorgeous memorial jewelry. During the old times, people often used a sample of hair inside of mourning jewelry. Modern technology has invented new ways of celebrating the life of a loved one, such as having a diamond grown from the cremated ashes of the departed. Do you want to look at some of the most extraordinar...
Tears. Inability to focus. Intense feelings of despair. Grief is arguably the most desperate state of being that a person ever has to go through in life. Sometimes grief can get messy. For certain individuals, it’s not as easy and picking up the pieces and moving on with life following the death of a close loved one. There are many different factors that contribute to the degree and length of grief, such as the age of the person who died, if it was sud...
Death is hard. Grieving is difficult. Paying tribute to the deceased is a worldwide cultural practice that helps individuals cope following the tragic loss of someone they love. Memorial jewelry is one of many ways people choose to celebrate the memory of a loved one after death. Memorial jewelry made from the cremated remains of the dearly departed, or that symbolizes the deceased, provides a special way to treasure that individual and carry their spi...
