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Caregivers Estimations of Their Children’s Perceptions of Death as a Biological Concept.

In this article, caregiver’s were surveyed on how well their children understand the different aspects of death. Then the children were also surveyed on their understandings. This data was then placed on chats and graphs to compare and contrast the children’s real understanding vs what they were expected to understand in relation to death. For the most part caregivers had accurate assumptions on what there children knew. However in areas such as personal mortality, Causation, and cessation, many adults actually underestimated how much their children knew. Over all children had a better grasp on the concept than anyone guessed. Girls also had a better grasp on applicability than boys.

This article proves useful to me because it shows that children often have a better, more thorough understanding of death than adults expect them too. Even if the information given to them has been laced with religion or sugar coated to sound less offensive. Gaab, Erin M., Glynn R. Owens, and Roderick D. MacLeod. "Caregivers’ Estimations Of Their Children's Perceptions Of Death As A Biological Concept." Death Studies 37.8 (2013): 693-703 11p. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 16 June 2016

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