Remains Of Children Research Articles

Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child

To examine rituals (disposing remains, wakes, funerals/burials, celebrations) of White, Black, Hispanic parents post ICU infant/child death. Qualitative design, 63 parents completed English or Spanish semi-structured interviews at 7 & 13months after infant's/child's death. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and entered into Atlas.ti for analysis. An inductive approach to thematization was used to develop codes. Parents: mean age 35.1years (SD=9.03); 33% Black, 27% White, 40% Hispanic; from 17 countries. Three themes emerged: immediately after death - shock and stress, needing help with arrangements, decisions on burial or cremation (conflicts due to finances, religion, culture), when and where to hold wakes, funerals/burials. Wakes and funerals--who prepares child's body, appropriate dress (deceased child, mourners), who can come (cultural restrictions),--by child age, parent choice, culture, religion, country. After burial/cremation--being with family, milestone celebrations. Child death is devastating for parents, other children, grandparents, and family members. Rituals after child death require decisions about the child's remains, wakes, funerals/burials at time of great pain for parents. This is especially true for newly immigrated parents and those with language barriers where making arrangements is especially hard and often very isolating. Health professionals who provide support need to be cognizant of practice differences based on religion, culture, economics, family traditions, and individual preference and provide as much support and resource as possible. A list of religious leaders representing the community's cultures and funeral service providers who may provide lower cost burials/cremations is helpful.

The Relationship Between Birth Weight and Growth with Caries Development in Young Children Remains Uncertain

Article Title And Bibliographic Information Is there a relationship between birth weight and subsequent growth on the development of dental caries at 5 years of age? A cohort study. Kay EJ, Northstone K, Ness A, Duncan K, Crean SJ. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2010;38:408-14. Reviewers Bruce A. Dye, DDS, MPH, Cynthia L. Ogden, PhD, MRP Purpose/Question Do height and weight at birth and subsequent growth affect caries development? Source of Funding Partial support through Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children from the UK Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the University of Bristol Type of Study/Design Cohort study Level of Evidence Level 2: Limited-quality, patient-oriented evidence Strength of Recommendation Grade Not applicable

Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child – An interpretative phenomenological analysis

The main objective of this study was to identify how bereaved mothers describe their coping strategies in their own words. The literature on parental bereavement is sparse, and the present study aims to add to existing knowledge by eliciting the mothers' experiences covering a wide range of child ages including infants, younger children and adults. Semi-structured interviews were held with 13 bereaved mothers in the UK. Causes of death include accident, illness and suicide. The methodological approach was interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). This article reports two inter-related recurrent themes: (1) Continuing the bond with the deceased child and (2) Ambivalence to personal mortality. Participants reported that the relationship with their child was continued in a variety of ways, from tending to the grave and the child's remains, through linking objects or by establishing a symbolic representation of the child within their daily lives. All mothers talked openly about their own mortality, either demonstrating ambivalence about their own death, or expressing clear suicidal ideation. Death was seen as a release from living with the pain of loss. The presence of surviving siblings appeared to moderate suicidal ideation, but mothers expressed concerns about their ability to care adequately for other family members during times of intense grief.

Agent Orange Link to AML in Vietnam Veteransʼ Children Remains Complex & Elusive

Agent Orange Link to AML in Vietnam Veteransʼ Children Remains Complex & Elusive

Bicoronal synostosis in a child from historic Omaha Cemetery 25DK10

Fragmentary cranial remains of a child from a commingled burial in a historic Omaha Cemetery (AD 1780–1800) exhibit bony fusion between the frontal, parietals, and sphenoid. The child's remains are consistent with a developmental age between newborn and 6 months postnatal. Radiological and morphological analyses confirm that this individual exhibits osteological signs pathognomic of bicoronal sutural synostosis, including deformation of the lateral orbital margin. This case, although fragmentary, significantly augments other archaeological cases of coronal synostosis reported in the literature. In addition, an extremely large bregmatic fontanel, expanded anterior cranial fossa, and bossed forehead compared with undeformed individuals suggest the child also suffered from increased intracranial pressure perhaps related to an associated hydrocephaly. Despite the deformity, the remains of this child were treated in much the same manner as other infant remains from the site, including the presence of red mercury pigment on the skeletal remains. Am J Phys Anthropol 105:369–376, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.