In the video below released Wednesday, the father of slain Trayvon Martin discusses Father's Day and urges political action against laws and proposed laws he and others believe increase the potential for more killings like the one that took away his son. We have a word for people whose spouses die, widow(er), and a word for children whose parents die, orphan. But, strangely, we have no word for parents whose children die. Of course, fathers and mothers will always be fathers and mothers, no matter whether their sons and daughters are alive or not. Still, you would think that as often as parents outlive a child, historically even more so, a word would have been invented to describe their circumstances.
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