What Happens to Children Whose Parents Commit Suicide?

Magdalena Romanowicz; Alastair J McKean; Jennifer L Vande Voort

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2018.01.022

What Happens to Children Whose Parents Commit Suicide?

J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 May;57(5):351-352. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.01.022.

Authors

Magdalena Romanowicz¹, Alastair J McKean², Jennifer L Vande Voort²

Affiliations

¹ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

PMID: 29706165
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.01.022

Abstract

Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death among 25- to 49-year-olds in the United States, and each year roughly 30,000 children are victims of parental suicide in the United States (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005).¹ We report a case of a young child who lost both of his parents to suicide.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Anxiety, Separation / psychology
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / psychology
Child
Child of Impaired Parents / psychology*
Humans
Male
Parents / psychology*
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology
Suicide*
Truth Disclosure*
United States