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When your grieving child develops separation anxiety

My nine-year-old keeps having nightmares that I'm going to leave like mommy did and won't let me go to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

One loss creates terror of future abandonment, transforming ordinary separations into traumatic threats in a child's hypervigilant mind.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and grief — supporting young people?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.