{"id":2768,"date":"2020-04-28T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/measuring-maternal-grief-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:04:37","slug":"measuring-maternal-grief-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/measuring-maternal-grief-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring maternal grief in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3203-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3203-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3203-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Measuring maternal grief in Africa\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  In places where children die with tragic frequency, the collective grief of parents affects all society. (Illustration: Mary Long\/Shutterstock)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=dornsife-global\">Dornsife Global<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Measuring maternal grief in Africa<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  A high percentage of women in Africa experience the loss of a child, yet little scholarly or political attention is paid to this bereavement burden.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Emily Smith-Greenaway and Jenny Trinitapoli<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">April 28, 2020<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 4.0350275 0 1.5167124.60096154 2.9475732 1.68841575 4.0350274 1.058837 1.0874543 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class=\"legacy\"><em>&nbsp;The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The big idea<\/h2>\n<p>Most parents living in industrialized countries today reasonably presume that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/data\/gho\/publications\/mdgs-sdgs\">all their children will survive childhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But child death remains woefully common in some parts of the world. A baby born in certain sub-Saharan African countries is roughly 20 times more likely to die in early childhood than a <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unicef.org\/topic\/child-survival\/under-five-mortality\/\">baby born in North America or Western Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1907343117\">study<\/a> measures the proportion of parents who&rsquo;ve lost a child. Academic research on child death typically focuses on an individual child&rsquo;s risk of death, so examining this tragedy from the perspective of parents is a new approach.<\/p>\n<p>To determine how many parents have lost children, we used <a href=\"https:\/\/dhsprogram.com\/\">Demographic and Health Survey Program<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statcompiler.com\/en\/\">data<\/a> to track 30-year trends in 20 sub-Saharan African countries with the highest child mortality rates. These surveys have collected detailed reproductive histories from women for decades, allowing us to evaluate the experiences of mothers over time.<\/p>\n<p>We found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/pnas\/suppl\/2020\/02\/04\/1907343117.DCSupplemental\/pnas.1907343117.sapp.pdf\">more than 20% of all young mothers<\/a> across West, Central, East and Southern Africa have lost a child under the age of 5, primarily due to infectious and waterborne diseases. Among older mothers aged 45 or higher, 25% to 50% have lost a young child.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the West African countries of Mali, Liberia, and Nigeria, as well as from three southern and eastern African countries &ndash; Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda &ndash; is even more staggering. In those places, up to one in five mothers has suffered the death of two children. Some have lost more than two children.<\/p>\n<h2>Why it matters<\/h2>\n<p>The death of a child is an excruciating and enduring event that affects parents in lasting ways.<\/p>\n<p>Bereaved parents have an <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0192513X07302728\">elevated risk of depression, anxiety<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/jech.bmj.com\/content\/66\/10\/927.short\">array of physical health problems<\/a>, from cardiovascular disease to early death. The stress of losing a child also <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13524-019-00846-7\">strains marriages<\/a>, leading to more conflict, intimate partner violence, divorce and abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>Quantifying how many mothers have lost a child gives us a sense of these individual and collective strains in a given place. In our paper, which published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/journal\/procnatiacadscie\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> journal in February, we call this collective grief the parental &ldquo;bereavement burden.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;That measure, in turn, tells us something important about the broader social context for all women. In places where infant and child death rates are high, the fear of losing a child is acute. Even women who have not lost a child worry that they will.<\/p>\n<p>Maternal grief, in other words, is a shared phenomenon that affects how all women in a society navigate major life decisions.<\/p>\n<p>For example, fertility researchers know that if mothers anticipate the loss of their own children &ndash; both current and future &ndash; they <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/000312240607100206\">will have more children<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/tanzanian-president-bluntly-attacks-contraception-saying-high-birth-rates-are-good-for-economy-103513\">Using contraception<\/a> to plan for small families &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/kenya-needs-a-new-plan-to-make-contraceptives-accessible-again-48470\">assuming it is available<\/a> &ndash; is a luxury reserved for those who can reasonably think all the children they give birth to will survive.<\/p>\n<h2>What still isn&rsquo;t known<\/h2>\n<p>In the shadows of the high child mortality rates are millions of grieving mothers who bear the personal, social and marital costs of a child&rsquo;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this population receives very little scholarly or political attention. In some sub-Saharan African countries, that&rsquo;s more than half of all women who are invisibly suffering the bereavement burden.<\/p>\n<p>Our study illustrates the pressing need to understand the mother&rsquo;s experience of child death and incorporate grief into a country&rsquo;s public health considerations.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Insight, in your inbox each day.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\/newsletters?utm_source=TCUS&amp;utm_medium=inline-link&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter-text&amp;utm_content=insight\">You can get it with The Conversation&rsquo;s email newsletter<\/a>.]<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. 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More info: https:\/\/theconversation.com\/republishing-guidelines --><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/emily-smith-greenaway-166538\">Emily Smith-Greenaway<\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/university-of-southern-california-dornsife-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences-2669\">University of Southern California &ndash; Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/jenny-trinitapoli-1042715\">Jenny Trinitapoli<\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/university-of-chicago-952\">University of Chicago<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This article is republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\">The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. 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