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1 in 2 children will live in a single parent family at some point in childhood (Grief Speaks)

8 million people suffered through the death of someone in their immediate family last year; 800,000 new widows and widowers; 400,000 people under 25 suffered from the death of a loved one (National Mental Health Association)

Gang recruitment is a powerful lure for the products of broken homes and single-parent households as gang members are likely to "receive little guidance or attention from family members at home." (Chicago Crime Commission Report,1995)

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"In a poll of 1,000 high school juniors and seniors, 90% indicated that they had experienced the death of a loved one."

(nahic.ucsf.edu/downloads/Mortality.pdf)

"1.5 million children are living in a single-parent household because  of the death of one parent."

(Owens, D. “Recognizing the Needs of Bereaved Children in

Palliative Care” Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. 2008; 10:1)

"One in every 1,500 secondary school students dies each year."

(nahic.ucsf.edu/downloads/Mortality.pdf)

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Jessie shows us that holding emotions in is not the best way to deal with it. That you should always talk to someone and not bottle things in. Her way of dealing with the grief is not healthy let alone healthy for people around her.

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Jessie's mom died hardly two years ago and she hasn't gotten over it yet when her dad already moved on. She has a hard time with the thought of her dad with another girl and it doesn't make life easy. She never talks to anyone about it and she doesn't always like crying. Jessie tried to find ways to deal with it as best as she can.

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Childrens Greif Awarness Day. (2018). [online] Available at: chrome-extension://cbnaodkpfinfiipjblikofhlhlcickei/src/pdfviewer/web/viewer.htmlfile=https://www.childrensgriefawarenessday.org/cgad2/pdf/griefstatistics.pdf [Accessed 16 Jan. 2018].

Things and Buxbaum, J. (2018). Tell Me Three Things. [online] Goodreads.com. Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893582-tell-me-three-things [Accessed 16 Jan. 2018].

GriefSpeaks.com. (2018). Facts/Statistics. [online] Available at:http://www.griefspeaks.com/id113.html [Accessed 16 Jan. 2018].

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Why We Should Do More to Help People that are Grieving 

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Why We Should Do More to Help People that are Grieving 

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Grieving is something everyone has to go through at some point and I think because of that people who could help tend to just brush it off. People like me, who go home and can't talk about it with someone, feel as though there is nothing to do about it but cry and rant about it to friends.

A way we could help grieving people is to learn how to treat them.
-Make sure you make it clear you want to help them and listen.
-Listen more than you talk.
-Chose your words wisely.
-Offer help, make it clear, make sure they know your there.
-Keep checking in with them.

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My book called Tell Me Three Things talks about a girl, Jessie, trying to live a new life she was forced into. It's been less than two years since Jessie's mom had died and her dad has already married a woman he met online, forced jessie to move from Chicago to LA with him, and enrolls Jessie in a preppy high school called Wood Valley High School.
Just when Jessie hated her new life and wanted to go straight back to chicago, someone (who they say is nobody) emailed her under the name SN and soon becomes her lifeline.

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My book talks about the real world issue of how griefing affects relationships and schooling life. It shows into the life of a teenage girl who lost her mother. She had to tackle the feeling of grieving and being the new kid at her new school in LA.

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My book shows grieving off as being easier then it really is. Not saying it didn't show the character in pain, but it forsure did not show the character in as much pain as most people would really go through. Not saying someone cant grieve as "nicely" as Jessie did, but its definitely not as easy as they showed.

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""It's been 747 days and still I have not yet learned how to talk about any of this. I mean I can talk about how we were broken, how I was broken. But I still haven't found the words to talk about my mom. The real her. To remember who she was in a way that doesnt make me keel over. I dont know how to do that yet. Sometimes i forget how to talk all together." (Page 38, Tell Me Three Things.)

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Grief itself cannot be solved, it's a natural thing, if someone loses a loved one they are going to be sad. Now, whether they are grieving so bad they need professional help or grieving so bad they are only sad for a short period of time, it all matters and is all "solved" differently.

Some grieving people just want to be left alone. When I was grieving, I didn't want to talk to anyone, let alone leave my room. But on the other hand some people might be just too sad to be left alone and might need professional help.
It all matters on the situation and the person.

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How It Affects People In The Real World (me)

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How It Affects People In The Real World (me)

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Grief for me is something that I know I will deal with for the rest of my life. I lost my mom to alcoholism  2 years ago on March 18th. When you lose a parent you get reminded of it on a daily basis, people talking about there parents, pictures of peoples parents, people talking about their mom, and just daily things. Grieving over someone feels like a cramp, you can take medicine to help the pain but it will never take it away. Somedays are harder for me then others. Some Days I wake up wanting to live the day for my mom and make her proud, other days I wake up and just start crying immediately.

No days are easy, but some days are better.