The surviving child in the SIDS family.

Children grieve, often very deeply. The unexpected loss of an infant elicits grieving from all family members and alters forever the family structure. What is the long-term impact of the death of a child in the family on the surviving sibling? What happens to children surviving this family catastrophe when they themselves become parents? In this report we present two accounts by children in the home when their siblings died. It reminds us that the effects of a sudden and unexpected loss of a child in the family can be long-lasting and return to us in childrearing practices of the next generation.