A new HEALING publication in Social Science & Medicine, “Race, death of a child, and mortality risk among aging parents in the United States,” explores the association between child loss and mortality risk for white parents and black parents. HEALING researchers Rachel Donnelly, Deb Umberson, Bob Hummer, and Michael Garcia found that losing a child prior to midlife is associated with higher mortality risk for black mothers and white mothers. Moreover, the processes linking child loss to parental mortality seem to differ by race.
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