Death during school age is a novelty now. It makes news. The rare case of childhood cancer. Every large suburban high school has traffic fatallity by inexperien

Death during school age is a novelty now. It makes news. The rare case of childhood cancer. Every large suburban high school has traffic fatallity by inexperienced, partying students. But usually just one. If you read biographies from US revolutionary times (1700s), almost every nuclear family knew death. Families were often blended with widows and widowers rapidily remarrying due to the burden of raising a family. Sometimes this lead to the story of the cold parent or step-parent who did not invest as much emotional capital in a child who might not last.