Lost Children : Separation and Loss Between Children and Parents

The attachment between parents and children is profound and everlasting, and within that attachment there is a constant component of loss.

Such loss can come in many forms: loss through divorce, loss through neglect (either emotional or physical), loss through disappearance, loss through death.

In this work the author demonstrates that while the conventions surrounding loss and death - grieving and burial and mourning - declare finality, they are also ways of continuing our dialogues with the absent and the dead which, unconsciously at least, are eternal.

From these dialogues, we see how each of us, whether as child or parent, can transform personal loss into a creative venture in our own lives.