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How Can I Help? for friends and family of the bereaved
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- All losses are the same.
- All bereaved parents grieve the same way.
- Grief declines steadily over time.
- When grief is resolved, it never comes up again.
- Infant death and pregnancy loss shouldn't be too difficult to resolve because you didn't know the child that well.
- Children need to be protected from grief and death.
- Couples who experience the death of a child have a higher incidence of divorce.
- It is not important for you to have social support in your grief.
- It takes two months to "get over" your grief.
- Children grieve like adults.
- Parents only feel crazy if they are going crazy.
- The intensity and length of your grief are testimony of your love for the deceased.
- Bereaved parents do not have a relationship with the deceased baby after death.
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