A new study that looked into the effect of children's death among elderly parents has found that death of a son triggers depressive symptoms and decline in overall health among mothers though no such effect was found in fathers or death of a daughter. In East Asian cultures, an adult son's role in the family is crucial to the wellbeing and financial stability of his parents, the researchers suggest. Therefore, a traumatic event, like the death of a son, could place ...
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