When Parents Commit Suicide (English Edition)

When parents commit suicide, children often believe that their parents did not love them. Suicide affects not only children but the entire family. Surviving parents and other adult family members require love, support, and understanding for their own recovery and for the sake of children. They are most helpful to children if they are immediately emotionally available to children and teens and over the long-term. This article provides guidelines for parents and other adults about what to do for children when a parent commits suicide. Suicide affects the entire family and is difficult to deal with. This article provides information that can be helpful to children, teens, and adults.