When a Child Has Been Murdered

When a Child Has Been Murdered: Ways You Can Help the Grieving Parents is a concise easy- to-read guide that begins with a general discussion of the types of grief that result from death and non-death losses. Then using statements made by parents whose children were murdered it discusses the specifics of murdered-child grief including: the complex emotions felt by the grieving parents how the necessity of interacting with the criminal justice system can alter and enhance these emotions short- and long-term methods these parents employ to work through the grieving process and to reconstruct their shattered lives and how anyone who comes in contact with the parents can help them survive their grief.