When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter

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Summary: The BEST!
Review: As a member of the international support group for parents whose children have died, I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has experienced the death of his/her child. It is a book that is best read after a few months have passed since the loss; however, it is the best organized and most thoughtful book I have read on the topic of parental grief.

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Summary: A life boat in the deepest, darkest sea
Review: Being an intelligent woman of the nineties, when I lost my son in a terrible accident I looked for an intellectual way to survive. This book helped me discover that I wasn't going to survive, but adapt. That adapting my new life without my child was not going to require intellect but basic instinct. The same instinct that made me a mother, is going to see me through the rest of my life without my child. They should give this book out as part of grief therapy. It should be required reading for any professional that works with parents that have survived their children.

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Summary: Well done
Review: Death is hard enough to deal with without having to cope with the insensitive remarks of others. We will never get over our loss as Judith B. points out we adapt.
We never get over the pain, we learn to live with it.
I am also using Write from your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal to get my feelings down on paper and to create a book of memories.

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Summary: Still The Best!
Review: Every parent to whom I've recommended this book has agreed that it is a wonderful book. Many have said, "I wish I had read a book like this years ago!" I am happy to correspond with other bereaved parents. (please note my change of email address below)

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Summary: It's all too true!
Review: Having helped run a Compassionate Friends chapter for ten years, reading the reviewers' comments reminded me of how uncannily predictable grief over a child's death is--the reactions of other people, particularly, who really don't know what to say (mainly because there is very little that can be said). Bernstein's book is a powerful message that you DO NOT recover, ever, you just adapt to a new life. It is a book every bereaved parent should read. Unfortunately, it is often a long time before reading--or anything else--can help, which is a good reason for a friend to buy a copy and give it. Thank you, Judith, for a lifeline in drowning sea.

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Summary: When the Bough Breaks
Review: I have lost two children, and this book has helped me quite a bit. I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: When the Bough Breaks
Review: I have lost two children, and this book has helped me quite a bit. I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: Well written, moving and insightful
Review: Judith Bernstein has tackled an area which has been ignored or neglected by other psychologists in the field of bereavement. One never gets over the loss of a loved one, let alone a parent over the loss of his or her child. Ms. Bernstein has not only realized this phenomenon in the most personal of ways, but has addressed it in moving and insightful prose

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Summary: Very helpful!
Review: Outstanding! Don't be fooled by the title. This is not a book just for people who have lost infants. This was an intelligent and sensitive description of life after the death of a child. My school-aged child died only a month ago. I bought the book to learn what the experience did to parent's lives over time. This is very well done. I want to thank the author for writing it.

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Summary: Very helpful!
Review: Outstanding! Don't be fooled by the title. This is not a book just for people who have lost infants. This was an intelligent and sensitive description of life after the death of a child. My school-aged child died only a month ago. I bought the book to learn what the experience did to parent's lives over time. This is very well done. I want to thank the author for writing it.