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<font size=3>At 02:30 PM 6/14/2012, Simi Peters wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">If my theory is correct, the
year-long mourning for a parent is meant to over-ride or compensate for
situations where the child might not grieve sufficiently.<br>
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I once heard the following proposed for why the mourning period for a
parent is a year and for a child it is only for 30 days. IIRC it
was Rav P. M. Teitz who said this, but I am not 100% sure.<br><br>
Everyone expects his parents to die if "things go
normally". This is the way of the world. Children outlive
parents in most cases. Therefore, there is a tendency to
"forget" about the passing of a parent, and a year of mourning
is designed to prevent this.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
How this fits with only 30 days for a spouse or a sibling I do not know.
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YL</font></body>
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