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“It’s Hard to Imagine the Pain Going Away.”

By Matt Christensen

What to Say to Someone Who Lost a Parent

By Matt Berical

The Isolating World of Men’s Grief

By Virginia Pelley

Dancing With the Stars Just Legitimized Dads Talking About Miscarriage

By Patrick A. Coleman

The Death of a Parent Is Life-Changing. Keep These Tips in Mind as You Grieve.

By Jeremy Brown

Fatherly Voices

My Father Died When I Was a Kid. I'm Still Grieving, 30 Years Later.

By Surjit Singh Flora

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I Should Have Been Nicer to My Dad. Now It’s Too Late My father was complicated and difficult. I realize now that I was too busy resenting him to realize how much I loved him.

Waking Up Before Dawn With My Son, on the Day of a Funeral After a child in our community died of cancer, I savored an early morning with my son. These mornings filled with reruns on television, laps around the dinner table, and leftover eggs are genuine treasures.

Father & Child Relationships

The Very Real Consequences of Cutting Off Your Parents When your parents or in-laws are problematic, sometimes severing ties is the only option. But it's never a clean break.

Pregnancy Loss, Our Worst Day, and a Letter to My Love While She Sleeps We had known that our daughter might not make it, but then we got the terrible news.

After the End of Everything Though parents mourning the death of a child experience classic psychological, biological, and social grief responses, there are unique challenges.

Health & Science

What I Wish My Husband Knew About My Post-Baby Grief I gave birth to a happy, healthy baby. But still, I grieved the idealized birth I'd envisioned. I needed my husband to understand why I couldn't understand why.

What I Learned When I Buried My Father It’s impossible to understand what the role of a father is until you lose yours.

Losing a Parent Changes Us Forever Grief is both real and measurable. Scientists now know that losing a parent changes us forever.

Health & Science

Dear Dads on the Sidelines: My Fatherless Son Needs You After my husband passed away, my kids needed me to be strong. But they also needed a community of men.

The Kids Are With My Ex. I'm Free. Then, the Guilt Comes After a custody weekend with my kids, however great, I can't wait to have a moment to myself. Once they're gone, I feel nothing but guilt. Now I know what it means.

Father & Child Relationships

The 24 Billboards Outside Kenosha, Wisconsin Tell A Father’s Real Story Michael Bell's son was shot point-blank by police. Nothing happened, so he started posting ads. Then, people began to notice.

Father & Child Relationships

Finding the Right Words to Use After My Daughter’s Stillbirth I don’t know how to make sense of most of this, but so goes grief and its slanted cycles.

‘Three Billboards’ Takes an Unapologetic Look at the Chaotic Nature of Existence and Parenthood Francis McDormand puts on a masterful performance as a grieving mother seeking justice from a system that doesn't have answers to her questions.

The One and Only Time I Held My Son How do you say goodbye to someone you've waited so long to meet? How did I?

Father & Child Relationships

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