{"title":"The difficulties of parenting when widowed: A qualitative study of the lived experience.","authors":"Kelley Ellis, Liza Barros-Lane, Tiffany Kasper","doi":"10.1080/07481187.2025.2521738","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Partner loss is considered one of the most stressful events in a person's life. Complicating this for young widows with children is the distress of witnessing the grief of their children. Widows must navigate managing their and their children's grief. This existential phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of young widows in the parenting of their children after the death of their partner. Qualitative findings from 19 women indicated three themes: a) Widowed parents wrestled with an agonizing dilemma-how to deliver the dreaded news of their partner's death to their children; b) widows realized the weight of their grief and loss had impacted their capacity to parent c) widowed mothers navigated the complex and often conflicting dynamics of parenting children who were profoundly changed by loss. These findings highlight the need for further study, education, and support for families impacted by the death of a parent and partner.</p>","PeriodicalId":11041,"journal":{"name":"Death Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Death Studies","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2025.2521738","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Partner loss is considered one of the most stressful events in a person's life. Complicating this for young widows with children is the distress of witnessing the grief of their children. Widows must navigate managing their and their children's grief. This existential phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of young widows in the parenting of their children after the death of their partner. Qualitative findings from 19 women indicated three themes: a) Widowed parents wrestled with an agonizing dilemma-how to deliver the dreaded news of their partner's death to their children; b) widows realized the weight of their grief and loss had impacted their capacity to parent c) widowed mothers navigated the complex and often conflicting dynamics of parenting children who were profoundly changed by loss. These findings highlight the need for further study, education, and support for families impacted by the death of a parent and partner.
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Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.
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