Parental Bereavement in Anglo American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13630295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura S Smart (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb), Laura Smart (Northern Illinois University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-61 |
| Publication date | 1994-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/gxw8-n24m-e9w4-qh7m |
| OpenAlex | W1975421537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 16 |
Contemporary bereaved parents who usually lack prior experience with the death of an infant or young child also lack understanding of how parents reacted in previous centuries when a child died. This article reviews social science writing on parental bereavement in Anglo-American history, concluding that parents as early as the early seventeenth century have left records of their grief. Cultural understanding and customs surrounding death have changed, and around 1800 women began to leave records of their grief in letters and diaries. Emotional expressiveness following infant death was greatest during the nineteenth century, but decreased toward the end of the century and became taboo in the twentieth. Compared to men's, expressions of grief by women and writings directed toward women have been more expressive of emotion. Relatively little has been written about parental bereavement in the early and mid-twentieth century
Developmental psychology · Disenfranchised grief · Grief · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Taboo · Anthropology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
Public memory and private grief
The Deceased Child in the Psychic and Social Worlds of Bereaved Parents During the Resolution of Grief
Almost the Copy of My Child That'S Dead”
From Death Notification Through the Funeral
Cultural Influences on Parental Bereavement in Chinese Families
Developing a Cross-Cultural Model of Grief
Perinatal Loss
Entre convergences et complémentarité
A Social Constructionist Account of Grief
Mothering Rodney in 1971
Inventing the American way of death, 1830-1920
Grief and mourning in cross-cultural perspective
The myths of coping with loss.
Death, grief, and mourning
Forgotten children
The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500-1800
Passing
Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750-1920
Broken hearts or broken bonds
The Pursuit of Happiness
Parents' Attitudes towards the Death of Infants in the Traditional Jewish-Oriental Family
Family Sociology or Wives' Family Sociology? A Cross-Cultural Examination of Decision-Making
Dad's Double Binds
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2020 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |