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For the school aged child, like the younger child, grief crisis may interrupt age appropriate activities and force a child to address issues for which the child is not developmentally prepared. Children this age might believe that certain behavior will bring their loved ones back.
Infants between the age of 8-12 months are at particular risk, as the death of a parent during this period coincides with attachment and separation. As the age group moves up, children may act out in ways by retrograding to infant behavior. Adolescents may react by delinquency, or its opposite, overachieving. Early exposure to mortality also renders teens susceptible to suicide ideation. To note, the death of a parent often means the loss of family and social structure, hence often oldest child of many may assume the role of a parentified child.