BEING AN ADULT ORPHAN IS HARD BEING A PARENTLESS PARENT IS HARDER
We empower parentless parents through guidance and community. Validate the past. Adjust to the present. Redefine your future.
The Practice
The Challenge
The Experience
The Challenge
While losing a parent at any age is enormous and profound, having lost both of your parents before becoming a parent or while a parent yourself, leaves you in an odd and oftentimes difficult space.
When you have children of your own, and your parents are not there to help you – that difficult space becomes hard to navigate.
The Hope
The Experience
The Challenge
Parents Without Parents – A Support Group, helps parentless parents navigate life’s challenges through a powerful collective that provides support to help those who need a guiding hand, advice or just an ear.
The Experience
The Experience
The Experience
Parents Without Parents is supported by the Child Guidance Center of Southern CT and Dr. Jessica Welt, CEO & Clinical Director.
For over 15 years, Dr. Welt’s career has focused on crisis intervention and the treatment of trauma.
QUOTES
“I lost my identity as someone’s son. I lost the family and friends only connected to me through them. And I lost anything standing in the pecking order between me and my own demise.”
Caron Kemp
Cosmopolitan
Columnist
“The loss of a second parent can mean the loss of the home you grew up in. It could mean the loss of rituals that have lasted a lifetime. The loss of habits and practices that have lasted for decades.”
Steven Petrow
The Washington Post
Columnist
“The most enduring of those changes is the sudden, permanent disappearance of life's familiar backdrop.”
Jennifer Huget
The Washington Post
Columnist