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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.
Of those there are perhaps 50,000 childrenâroughly 25,000 are school age; the rest are younger. Of this number there are approximately 38,000 children of school age. The school age, a resultant of the first three, is a record of progress in school. There was never a day when all the children of school age were in school.