Dual Role Parenthood

In a combination of addressing some of the same core experiences as maternal death and living grief sections, this small section of stillbirthday is dedicated to bringing some resources together, that you may find helpful if you:

are facing a dysfunctional, unnatural or difficult kind of family structure:

you experience grief because the relationship is severed, difficult or dysfunctional
are a step parent or divorced, and grieving the loss of your spouse and (at times) the loss of your child(ren)
are a military family or in another high stress, unpredictable career or journey

are a widow and/or a bereaved parent:

have lost children and a spouse to death or other separation

The dual role of parenthood means that it is a parent who works within both the mother and father role. This has commonly been known as single parenthood, but single parents perform double the role. This can be true in both rearing and mourning our children.

Bereavement Resources

Military Resources

military support listing

More Resources

(blog) Young, Widowed and Dating
(article) The Complicated Social Life of a Young Widow
(news story) his pregnant wife is taken off of life support

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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