Theme: Bereavement: Maintaining Connection, Continuing Bonds

Parents ask, Did my child leave a legacy?

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Parents ask, Did my child leave a legacy?

Grief counselor Nancy Frumer Styron discusses how parents struggle with the question of whether their child left a legacy. Older children may leave a concrete legacy, and then there is the emotional legacy of who this person was and what they’ve left others. Several parents share their perspectives of their children’s powerful legacies. “This connection to other people and other people’s stories, I can be thankful for that.”