Separation affects every family member, but children often bear the heaviest emotional burden. As parents navigate their own grief and stress, keeping children’s well-being at the centre of every ...

As any parent knows, small children experience even brief separations from parents as highly stressful. Prolonged separations inflict lasting trauma and catastrophic neurological damage (Wan 2018).

When people think of separation anxiety, they often picture young children on their first day of school, but it's easy to overlook that parents might experience similar feelings. As the school year ...