This study aims to explore how children respond to their experiences of death and other related forms of loss. It also examines what kinds of communication exist between children and their parents regarding death and loss experiences. Subjects comprised 868 parents with children from 1st grade through 6th grade volunteered to participate in the study. The majority of responses from the parents was from mothers (93%, vs. fathers 6%), and most participants (80%) were in their 30s and 40s. Common loss experiences among the children were the attending of funerals and visiting sick family members (85%), loss of a pet (50%), followed by death of parents or grandparents (42%). Of those who experienced loss in the form of death, 71% concerned the death of grandparents. 91% of parents reported that they discussed the circumstances of the death with their children. Of those parents, 70% said they had a conversation about death and dying with their children on a daily basis, and many said that social problems and news reports concerning murder and suicide cause them to bring up that conversation. Many parents believe that it is important to have death related" conversations from early on in their children's lives, but more than 30% of parents reported that they never had an opportunity to have such discussions with their children.While the desire of parents to provide death education for their children is quite strong, according to the results, only 30% of parents have such opportunities to communicate with their children about death and loss experiences.
小学生をもつ親が子どもと「死」について話すことの意識と実態
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