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Article: Children and Adolescents' Understanding of Death
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Children and Adolescents' Understanding of Death
Parents often feel uneasy and unprepared in responding to their children's curiosity about death. Studies indicate that many parents felt they had not been guided to an understanding of death in their own childhood and as parents either had to improvise responses or rely on the same evasive techniques that had been used on them. It is useful, then, to give attention to the attitudes of adults before looking at the child's own interpretations of death.
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