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Measuring maternal grief in Africa

  • Written by Emily Smith-Greenaway, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Measuring maternal grief in AfricaIn places where children die with tragic frequency, the collective grief of parents affects all society.Mary Long/Shutterstock

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Most parents living in industrialized countries today reasonably presume that all their children will survive childhood.

But child death remains...

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