An estimated 10.4 million children have lost a parent or caregiver, putting them at higher risk for poverty and every major cause of death but it doesn’t have to end in catastrophe.
At least 240,000 children in the United States have lost a parent or caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Imperial College London's orphanhood calculator showed. However, the American political elite is showing little interest in confronting the issue more than two years into the pandemic.
Because of COVID-19, more than 210,000 American children have lost at least one primary caregiver. Given that losing a parent is “one of the most destabilizing events.
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