Motherless Daughters

Essay # 45328

Child, Youth Issues > Family Issues
Psychology > Child and Adolescent
Sociology

An overview of literature about the death of a mother in a child's early life.

1,734 words () | 3 sources | MLA | 2003 United States

Paper Summary:

What are the effects of early mother-loss on daughters? How are future relationships affected? How can a girl, teenager, or woman emerge from such extreme loss and find acceptance and healing? These are the questions this paper delves into and sheds light and understanding on.

From the Paper:

"The early loss of a mother is a catastrophic event. That is how Maxine Harris, Ph.D. describes it in her book The Loss That Is Forever: The Life Long Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father. I believe there is no description more fitting. Harris defines a catastrophe as evoking "feelings of discontinuity, terrifying insecurity and profound emptiness". She states that a catastrophe occurs when the world as we know it and understand it ceases to exist."