[Avodah] Mourning for a parent

[Simi Peters]

From: Prof. Levine 
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:56 PM
> ... IIRC it was Rav P. M. Teitz who said this, but I am not 100% sure.

> Everyone expects his parents to die if "things go normally"....

> However, no one expects a child to die. It is a tremendous shock
> for parents and is never forgotten. Thus 30 days is enough, because
> the passing of a child is never forgotten.

>  How this fits with only 30 days for a spouse or a sibling I do not know. 

One does not have the same halakhic obligations to a spouse or sibling.
A relationship with a spouse can be severed by death or divorce, so
one's obligations only obtain within an existing relationship. And one
is not commanded to honor or fear a sibling.

Simi