Nearly 44,000 children in Alabama have either lost a parent or become orphaned as of 2020, making it the state with the fourth highest rate of childhood bereavement, according to a new report.
The report, conducted by Evermore, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on securing bereavement care for families, along with Pennsylvania State University and the University of Southern California, found that about 6% of children under 18 in Alabama have lost a parent in their lifetime.The pandemic, coupled with additional factors including overdoses, suicide and maternal mortality, led to a 20-year-high of childhood bereavement in 2021.
“The death of a parent becomes an initiating event, leaving children vulnerable to these and many other risks that can alter the trajectory of their lives,” the report stated. “An orphaned child’s potential for lifelong success, well-being, and prosperity depends on the support he or she receives soon after bereavement. This is a crisis hiding in plain sight.”
Congress and the Biden administration are currently considering a national strategy to help children who have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19, according to the report, but the organization hopes they will expand that plan to include children who have lost a parent regardless of cause.
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