In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
I know, as a mother, it hurts you very much to see your children suffer.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.
I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.
No parent should have their child die before he or she does.
Good words will not give me back my children.
God knows what it's like to lose a son.
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.
When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.
Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?
If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.
I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.
I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.
