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“The Lifelong Effects for a Child after the Death of a Parent.” //GoodTherapy.// Godotherapy, 24 October 2011. Web. 14 June 2016. In this article, the author summarizes the findings of Angela Nickerson. She was studying the long term effects on adults who had experienced the death of a parent at a young age. Basically she came to the conclusion after studying 2,823 adults that the younger the death happened the worst mental health problems they could have. They could end up with depression, mood changes and anxiety. This helps to answer the question of how death of someone so important can manifest into the brain of someone and continue to have long term effects on them well into their adulthood. As children it seems that something like death wouldn’t have any kind of affect due merely to the fact that they have no understanding of what was happening especially when they are very young. Basic understanding would say that they would grow up, not knowing what happen and be fine as long as they were still raised “correctly” but study shows that this is far from correct. Josh F