School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Death Stud. 2023;47(8):914-925. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2022.2142328. Epub 2022 Nov 8.
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; story-ownership; bond-establishment, and; identity challenges.
失去家庭成员通常被视为生活故事的中断。然而，当一个人的生命在出生之前或出生期间失去亲人时，丧亲的生活故事并没有因失去亲人而中断，而是从失去亲人开始。本文将这些损失重新概念化为“先天损失”，并捕捉到这一现象的核心方面。对 34 名与在他们出生前/期间去世的家庭成员的后代和兄弟姐妹进行的深入半结构化访谈的定性现象学分析揭示了先天损失带来的四个主要挑战：不连贯性和碎片化；故事所有权；关系建立和身份挑战。
