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1Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Death Studies
|April 18, 2025
Summary
Many children still witness death or attend funerals, challenging the idea of increasing protection. Recent trends show resistance to overprotecting children from these experiences.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Child Development
- Thanatology
Background:
- Contemporary societies increasingly shield children from death and related experiences.
- This trend raises questions about the extent of childhood protection.
- Understanding children's exposure to death is crucial for developmental and societal insights.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze childhood exposure to death, specifically seeing a corpse and attending funerals.
- To examine trends in childhood exposure to death over a century.
- To identify recent shifts in child protection regarding death experiences.
Main Methods:
- Survey of 2000 Italians born between 1929 and 2013.
- Analysis of self-reported childhood experiences of seeing a corpse and attending funerals.
- Longitudinal analysis of generational trends in these experiences.
Main Results:
- A significant proportion of children have experienced seeing a dead body or attending a funeral.
- Childhood exposure to death shows a curvilinear trend over the past century, not a linear increase in protection.
- Recent societal shifts indicate resistance to overprotecting children from death-related experiences.
Conclusions:
- The notion of continuous, linear protection of children from death is not supported by the data.
- Childhood exposure to death remains a notable experience, with complex generational patterns.
- Emerging societal resistance to overprotection suggests a re-evaluation of how children engage with mortality.
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