Thearle M J, Gregory H
Department of Child Health, University of Queensland, Mater Children's Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia.
J Paediatr Child Health. 1992 Jun;28(3):204-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1992.tb02645.x.
There have been changing attitudes to death and grief in Western society in recent centuries. During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death. Specifically, the impact of death in childhood is reviewed. In recent decades sudden and unexpected death associated with stillbirth, the newborn and infants appears to have a more profound affect on the bereaved parents than in the past when the overall death rates in childhood were higher. The evolution of parent support groups developed since the 1960s to alleviate the psychological trauma of unexpected and sudden death in childhood has been traced. These groups were founded initially for support with sudden infant death syndrome and later extended to include families with stillbirth and neonatal death.
近几个世纪以来，西方社会对死亡和悲痛的态度一直在变化。在二十世纪，复杂的医学和社会变革导致了人们对死亡的态度和体验发生了变化。具体而言，本文回顾了儿童期死亡的影响。近几十年来，与死产、新生儿和婴儿相关的突然和意外死亡，似乎比过去对失去亲人的父母产生了更深刻的影响，而过去儿童期的总体死亡率更高。本文追溯了自20世纪60年代以来为减轻儿童期意外和突然死亡带来的心理创伤而发展起来的家长支持团体的演变。这些团体最初是为支持患有婴儿猝死综合征的家庭而设立的，后来扩展到包括死产和新生儿死亡的家庭。
