The loss of a child at any age is known as which term?

• A. Infant loss
• B. Childhood loss
• C. Death of children
• D. Adult child loss

Answer: (C)

The concept being tested is how we label the event of a child dying. When a child dies at any age, the experience is described as the death of a child. This phrasing centers on the child's death as the cause of the family’s loss, and it covers the full range from infancy through adolescence and beyond. The other terms are narrower or refer to different situations: infant loss is limited to infants, childhood loss suggests a time period rather than the death itself, and adult child loss refers to losing an adult child. So, the term that best communicates the loss across ages is death of children.