The role of paediatricians in implementing adequate social programs to assist children suffering parental loss

摘要

Parental loss in children describes several circumstances, which besides death, are related to a prolonged absence of one or both parents or caregivers. Separation from familiar figures due to divorce, incarceration, prolonged absence for work or removal to foster care, are only few of the several factors that have been identified to contribute establishing a condition of parental loss.