Hidden Pain: Children Who Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID-19 and What the Nation Can Do To Help Them
“Among the more than 760,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are parents, custodial grandparents, or other caregivers on whom children had relied for financial, emotional, and developmental support. Many of these children already faced significant social and economic adversity, and these devastating losses can impact their development and success for the rest of their lives.”
COVID Collaborative is a national assembly of government, non-profit, and private sector partners alongside leading experts in health, education, and economy to support hundreds of thousands of youths in the United States impacted by COVID-19.
They have developed an insightful report estimating the number of children who lost a parent or other caregiver to COVID-19, discussing developmental risk factors due to parental loss, and providing a plan of action that includes recommendations for parents, teachers, and government to help aid COVID-bereaved children.
