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When grandparents must explain a parent's death to young children

My daughter died in a car accident and now I have her twin boys and they keep asking when mommy is coming home and I cannot stop crying long enough to answer them properly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Simultaneous grief and caregiving demands create an impossible emotional burden that threatens everyone's healing.

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