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‘Terrible emptiness’: parents struggle with children leaving home
Survey of parents of first-year students found 98% felt extreme grief after the closeness of lockdown
After an intense lockdown, with six adults sharing one small house, Tascha Oldland experienced a “terrible emptiness” when her two eldest children left home to study in September.
“The beginning of lockdown was awful: six of us were living under one roof for the first time in a couple of years,” she said. “But after a few months we all settled and despite the stress of everything that was happening, I feel pretty lucky to have had that bonus time with my two eldest children,” she said. “But the payoff seems to be this terrible emptiness now they’ve gone!”
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