RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Becoming a Bereaved Parent
JF Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
FD University of California Press
SP 70
OP 86
DO 10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.70
VO 6
IS 4
A1 Kofod, Ester Holte
YR 2017
UL http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/6/4/70.abstract
AB In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and professional accounts depict normal grief as a transitory state, parental accounts present grief as a continuing and open-ended relationship with the dead child. In acknowledgment of this, I present fragmentary, non-reifying narratives of the continuing realities of becoming a bereaved parent.