It's all there in a mother's womb and a father's "will-force" to give birth to a new life which would preserve their identities for the next generation. It's all there in the blood and it's all there within the souls. It's indissoluble and has been made right from the heaven. It's the eternal bondage between parents and their children.
Parents are what they are because of their parenthood and they feel their existence because their children exist and grow up with time in front of their eyes. So when a child vanishes in thin air, then his parents are most likely to get "broken" and "buried" up under the soil.
Researchers at the University of York , England and those at Stirling University, Scotland, have suggested that parents, who have lost their children within the first 12 months of their life, are most likely to die earlier.
Researchers analyzed the data pertaining to 5 percent of U.K. death registrations of parents whose children had died within one year after taking birth. The cases were selected on a random basis considering data from 1971 to 2006. The study also included stillborn babies.
The analysis of data gathered from Scotland, revealed that parents who lost their child, who even could not cross the first year of his life, were twice as likely to die early or to become widowed compared to parents who did not get this shock.
The study authors also noted that mothers were more likely to suffer from child loss although fathers were also at a higher risk of premature death. The data collected from England and Wales suggested that mothers suffering from the pain of child loss stood at a four times higher risk of experiencing death within 15 years of the child's passing away in comparison to mothers who did not pass through these circumstances. The risk was found to be 1.5 times higher even 25 years after the mishap.
Researchers have suggested that bereavement may have produced a biological impact on the parents, which have ultimately led to early deaths. They have explained that bereaved parents are more likely to find some "peace" by adopting maladaptive coping strategies like alcohol abuse, which in turn, leads to illnesses and accidents. In cases of stillbirth, researchers have opined that the parents themselves may have poor health.
Researchers are now interested to find out the causes of death in bereaved parents, who have been hit by the loss of a child. Well, it's far beyond scientific investigations. Can anyone measure the amount of pain suffered by parents who have lost a part of their body-parts and identity?
