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Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one's birth.
- Source :
- Death Studies; 2023, Vol. 47 Issue 8, p914-925, 12p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The loss of a family member is often conceptualized as a disruption in one's life story. However, when a loss occurs prior to, or during, one's birth, the bereaved life stories are not interrupted by the loss, but rather begin with loss. The paper offers a new conceptualization of these losses as "congenital losses" and captures the core aspects of this phenomenon. A qualitative phenomenological analysis of 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews with offspring and siblings whose family members died before/during their birth revealed four main challenges presented by congenital loss: incoherency and fragmentation; storyownership; bond-establishment, and; identity challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07481187
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Death Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171930840
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2022.2142328