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Anthony Wahl The annual Independence Day on the Rock free holiday display at Traxler Park on Sunday, July 4. Thousands of young children lost parents to COVID. Where’s help for them? By JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News Jul 5, 2021 Scott Stephen Ball/KHN  Valerie Villegas holds a photograph of her late husband, Robert Villegas, along with her children Alexis Vaiz, Nicholas, Robert Jr., Ayden and Andrew Vaiz outside their Portland, Texas, home on Wednesday. (Scott Stephen Ball/Kaiser Health News/TNS) Scott Stephen Ball/KHN  Valerie Villegas (left) holds Robert Jr. as her olde...

Thousands of young children lost parents to COVID. Where’s help for them? JoNel Aleccia View Comments Five months after her husband died of COVID-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and almost weaned when his father died, now wants to nurse at all hours and calls every tall, dark-haired man “Dada,” the only word he knows. Robert, 3, regularly collapses into furious tantrums, stopped using the big-boy potty and frets about sick people giving him germs. Ayden, 5, recently announced it’s his job to “be strong” and protect his...