I’m certain that many of you have known a child who faced the unimaginable—the death of a parent or sibling. Maybe that kind of loss has ripped through your own family. Or perhaps, that child was you. One out of seven children will lose a parent or sibling before the age of 20. I am the mother of three kids whose birth mother died of cancer when they were young. I married their dad when the kids were nine, eleven, and thirteen years old. All of them were grieving in very different ways. Losing a loved one, at any age, …
