Supporting Bereaved Parents

Reposted from Duke Today By KARLA FC HOLLOWAY In an NPR essay nearly three years ago, I pondered over the lack of a word for parents whose child had died. I remember I said it must be a quiet word, like our grief, but clear in its claim. I recalled the word that Lady Bird Johnson wanted no part of when her husband President Lyndon Johnson died -- "widow" -- a Sanskrit word that meant "empty." She was not empty, she asserted. She was grieving. But at least she had a word to re

Reposted from the Kim Family's Blog Vilomah is a word for a parent whose child has died.  I will attempt to explain why this word has been such a comfort to me. People need identities and are constantly in search of their identity.  Although I am very confident in the fact that my first and foremost identity is a child of God, made in the image of God, I have many other non-primary identities. I am a wife, I am a mother, a daughter, an aunt, etc. One thing I have discovered a