Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals.
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| Title: | Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals. |
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| Authors: | Colombo, Asher D. (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Death Studies. 2026, Vol. 50 Issue 7, p1230-1244. 15p. |
| Subjects: | Attitudes toward death, Cross-sectional method, Parents, Death, Research funding, Parent-child relationships, Socioeconomic factors, Logistic regression analysis, Social change, Psychology & religion, Descriptive statistics, Social context, Bereavement, Interment, Data analysis software, Adverse childhood experiences, Educational attainment, Urbanization |
| Geographic Terms: | Italy |
| Abstract: | A growing strand of studies suggests that in contemporary societies adults have long been engaged in a process of protecting children from death and the experiences surrounding it. This raises questions about the level of protection children are subjected to. Based on a survey of 2000 Italians, the article analyses people born between 1929 and 2013 about two childhood experiences: exposure to the sight of a corpse and attendance at a funeral. Three main findings emerge. Firstly, the proportion of who saw a dead body or attended a funeral as children is far from negligible. Secondly, the analysis of the two experiences considered over the course of a century casts doubt on the hypothesis of linear growth of protection and shows, instead, a curvilinear trend. Finally, the analysis shows the recent emergence, in some social settlements, of resistance to the overprotection of children from the experiences examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | A growing strand of studies suggests that in contemporary societies adults have long been engaged in a process of protecting children from death and the experiences surrounding it. This raises questions about the level of protection children are subjected to. Based on a survey of 2000 Italians, the article analyses people born between 1929 and 2013 about two childhood experiences: exposure to the sight of a corpse and attendance at a funeral. Three main findings emerge. Firstly, the proportion of who saw a dead body or attended a funeral as children is far from negligible. Secondly, the analysis of the two experiences considered over the course of a century casts doubt on the hypothesis of linear growth of protection and shows, instead, a curvilinear trend. Finally, the analysis shows the recent emergence, in some social settlements, of resistance to the overprotection of children from the experiences examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 07481187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2025.2489572 |
