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Evermore is dedicated to making the world a more livable place for bereaved families. We believe America’s bereavement care is broken and grieving families deserve legal protections and state-of-the-art support. Every day, we work to bring the most advanced and sophisticated bereavement care system to all Americans. Anything less is downright unAmerican.

KEY FACTS

Bereaved Parents

By age 60, nine percent of Americans have experienced the death of a child. By 70, 15 percent of American parents have lost a child. By age 80, 18 percent of American parents have experienced the death of a child.

Scientific evidence indicates that bereaved parents are more likely to suffer more depressive symptoms, poorer well-being, less purpose in life, more health complications, marital disruption, psychiatric hospitalization, and even premature death for both mothers and fathers as early as age 40.

Twenty-nine percent of black families report the death of a child, 20 percent of Hispanic families report the death of a child, 17 percent of white families report the death of a child.

Black Americans were two and a half times more likely to lose a child by the age of 20. By age 50-70, black Americans were three times more likely than whites to lose a child. By age 80, black Americans are more than four times more likely to lose a child when compared to white parents.

Bereaved Siblings

Sibling death in childhood is associated with a 71 percent increased all-cause mortality risk among bereaved persons.

Bereaved Children

Two million American minor children have a deceased biological mother or father.

Young children are more likely to be expelled from school, repeat a grade, less likely to be in gifted education programs and have a disability.

Bereaved Spouses

Forty-nine percent of husbands and 30 percent of wives died in the nine years following the death of their spouse.

For more information, see our Key Facts webpage.

Media Highlights

The Kids Orphaned by COVID Won’t Return to ‘Normal’

April 2022

For the Press

KEY FACTS

Bereaved Parents

Bereaved Siblings

Bereaved Children

Bereaved Spouses

Media Highlights

The Kids Orphaned by COVID Won’t Return to ‘Normal’

Kids who lost parents to COVID-19 describe ’emptiness’ they feel this holiday season

Thousands of Young Children Lost Parents to COVID. Where’s Help For Them?

Space to Grieve: One Woman’s Courage to Take On a Broken System

‘Everybody Needs Time’: Open Letter Urges President Biden To Create National Bereavement Leave Policy

The Grief Crisis Is Coming

‘Pandemic Grief’ Proves Especially Devastating And Complex For Many In Mourning, Health Experts Say

The Pandemic Is Becoming A Grief Crisis

Comprehending the trauma a year into the pandemic

Lack of Bereavement Leave and Other Policies Fail Bereaved Families

As Grief Sweeps Nation from Violence, COVID-19 Deaths, Survivors ‘Suffering in Silence’

Joyal Mulheron and Casey Affleck on the State of Bereavement Care in the U.S.

As COVID-19 Continues to Spread, Many Want The White House To Help America Mourn

There’s A Racial Gap Even In Bereavement

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE

BEREAVEMENT CARE IN AMERICA IS BROKEN: A CALL TO ACTION

Companies Should Better Accommodate Grief

As Homicides Continue To Rise In D.C., Parents Of Gun Violence Victims Reflect On Their Open Wounds

HOKIE BUILT For A Better Tomorrow

‘She Wanted To Be With Her Daughter’

THIS LIFE: HER CHILD DIED, AND NOW SHE HEADS A CLUB THAT NO ONE WANTS TO JOIN

The pain from the loss of an infant may linger forever

Bereavement care in America is broken. Evermore believes our nation can, and should, do better.