myU OneStop


CEHD News.

Main | Ngo and Bigelow receive president's interdisciplinary conference award »

Relatives of airline crash victims suffer 'ambiguous loss'

Boss_Pauline.jpgIn a letter published in the New York Times, Pauline Boss, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Family Social Science, commented on the crash of Air France Flight 447. She noted that the families left with no body to bury suffer "ambiguous loss." Boss, who has written two books on ambiguous loss, noted, "The lack of closure causes families for many generations to ache for proof." Read the letter.

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)


Type the characters you see in the picture above.


Powered by
Movable Type 4.25